Jónsi & Alex released Debut Album, New Website, Interview & In the spotlight @ IMX

Jónsi Birgisson & Alex Somers Album " Riceboy Sleeps " is out now. www.youtube.com/v/2DkUlm9OY0c&hl&fmt=18 More information @ Jónsi & Alex In the spotlight @ IMX : Sleeping Giants Known primarily for his haunting falsetto and other-worldly presence as the singer in Sigur Rós , Jón Þór (Jónsi) Birgisson has - together with his partner Alex Somers - been exhibiting artwork and staging exhibitions under the name Riceboy Sleeps for two or three years now. A couple of months back the early fruits of the musical side of this collaboration surfaced in physical form for the first time, with the track " Happiness ", on the exemplary ‘Dark Was The Night’ Red Hot compilation.

Now the full-length " Riceboy Sleeps " ....

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