5月23日已更新正式版音质。Valtari是冰岛乐团Sigur Rós的第六张录音室专辑，将于五月二十三日于日本发行、其他国家则为五月二十八日或二十九日发行，台湾由金牌大风于六月八日代理发行，并将专辑中文名称翻译为“压解”。最初这张专辑是于2012年3月6日在Q Magazine发表，贝斯手Georg Hólm形容这张专辑将会是一个“比以前更多电子的元素”但不会变成“舞曲专辑”。专辑里最先曝光的第一首单曲 “Ekki Múkk” 搭配着影片一起在官方网站公开播出。四月十四日当天，整张专辑的曲目在网络上公开。四月二十一日的唱片行日，Sigur Rós公布了黑胶特别版本的Ekki Múkk，这张唱片的B面则是演奏曲Kvistur，B面这首歌曲也是专辑预购的附赠歌曲。五月十一日，在美剧吸血鬼日记的第三季结尾释出了新曲目 Dau餫logn。五月十七日，官方网站举办了一场名为Valtari Hour的活动，全世界每一个时区的乐迷可以在当地晚间七点钟在线上听完长达一个小时的专辑试听。五月二十一日，Sigur Rós公布了他们专辑里第一首歌蒰 Anda的音乐录像带，这也是他们这次 Valtari专辑的神秘影片实验计划里十二部影片中的第一支影片。Sigur RósValtariNew album released on 28th May 2012 on ParlophoneSigur Rós will return with their sixth studio album, Valtari, on 28th May. The first track from Valtari, entitled ‘Ekki Múkk’, is now streaming on the band’s website – www.sigurros.com. Valtari will be released on double LP, CD and digital download. Valtari is Sigur Rós’s first studio album since 2008’s acclaimed Me su í eyrum vi spilum endalaust, marking the end of their indefinite hiatus. It is either the album they always wanted to make, or the album they almost didn’t make, depending on how you look at it.Taken together, the eight songs on this 54-minute album feel like an alternative musical path the band didn’t take after 2002’s untitled ( ) album. Frequently bereft of formal structures, and for large stretches of time more atmospheres than songs, the work – which the band have described as sounding “like an avalanche in slow motion” – offers a counterpoint to Sigur Rós’s steady yet unconscious migration towards public acceptance (either via ‘sound-bed’ ubiquity or use as emotional shorthand in this or that movie.)In English, Valtari translates as “steamroller,” and there is something right about the title in terms of the process of its creation. In 2011, the band, alongside mixer Alex Somers, started the painstaking forensic task of piecing together a cohesive and magical work from disparate constituent parts. If this sounds unromantic, the results are anything but. Something alchemical occurs when the four members of Sigur Rós are in the room together, and while Valtari is a more “studio based” album than any of its predecessors (which usually start life as rehearsal room jams), the long hours of experimentation and unsentimental editing have yielded incredible results.Certain songs on the album have roots in earlier times. ‘Dau餫logn’ and ‘Var餰ldur’ emerged out of sessions on the back of Takk… but the choral ideas behind them stem from as far back as 2002 and an orchestral collaboration with the 16 Choir; 2009 sessions in the wake of the last album, Me su í eyrum vi spilum endalaust, threw up some individually beautiful moments - of which three, ‘Rembihnútur’, ‘Fj鰃ur piano’ and ‘Valtari’, live here - but it was hard to draw a line between them, and the band found focusing on such elusive music hard to do for any sustained period.And so, they essentially put the record on hold. In 2010, singer Jónsi went off to make, and then tour, his expansive, critically-acclaimed solo album Go, while keyboardist Kjartan spent time on his classically-inclined, unreleased work, ‘Credo’. Time slipped by. But then a film scoring opportunity led to the creation of the towering and majestic ‘Varú稹, arguably the record’s centerpiece; and shortly thereafter, scouting around for a closing credit song for last year’s live film, Inni, the band unearthed ‘Lúppulagi稹, which in its reworked choral form is here titled ‘Var餰ldur’, one of the album’s most understated and elegant songs. And slowly, what had seemed like a collection of isolated-but-interesting recordings, for the first time felt like the viable way towards a strangely cohesive body of work.But the process of making Valtari, and the powerfully pleasing end results, are perhaps best described by bassist Georg Holm: “I really can’t remember why we started this record, I no longer know what we were trying to do back then. I do know session after session went pear-shaped, we lost focus and almost gave up...did give up for a while. But then something happened and form started to emerge, and now I can honestly say that it’s the only Sigur Rós record I have listened to for pleasure in my own house after we’ve finished it.”