Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson is far from what you might call a conventional musician. Having fronted Icelandic post-rock pioneers Sigur Rós for the past sixteen years, Jónsi already has a quite a reputation for musical idiosyncrasies, sometimes writing songs in his own made up language ‘hopelandic’ (a mixture of English and Icelandic) while his singing style has often been compared to whale song.
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