On the Dark Was the Night indie all-star contributor list was the track ‘Happiness’ from Riceboy Sleeps.  Who is this little fellow, you ask? Well, it’s Sigur Ros vocalist Jon Thor (Jónsi) Birgisson and his partner Alex Somers. The two have collaborated on visual art under the moniker and now we have an album to go along with it.

What to expect? Magical, ambient,  innocent, elegiacal instrumental music.

And straight from the bio:

Played solely on acoustic instruments in Iceland (and featuring long-time string collaborators Amiina, as well as the Kopavogsdaetur choir) and then endlessly toyed with on solar-powered laptops in a raw food commune in some far corner of Hawaii, ‘Riceboy Sleeps’ has a suitably, uh, organic feel to it.

I do like that ‘organic’ is actually being used literally. Take a listen.

Riceboy Sleeps by Jon Thor (Jónsi) Birgisson & Alex Somers — out 17th July.