The ‘Angels Of The Universe’ CD has already sold over 30,000 copies in the UK and Europe, and is now being released on double deluxe vinyl.

‘Angels of the Universe’ is a film from Iceland’s most celebrated director, Fredrik Thor Fridriksson. At the time of this CD’s original release, over half the population of Iceland had been to see the movie, helping it to become one of the country’s most successful films ever.

Released in Iceland on Sigur Rós’ own Krunk label, the soundtrack to ‘Angels of the Universe’ has been composed by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, with Sigur Rós contributing two lengthy pieces, which feature towards the film’s climax. ‘Bium
Bium Bambaló’ and ‘Dánarfregnir Og Jardarfarir’ have previously only been available on the Sigur Rós EP, ‘Ny Batterí’, on Fatcat Records.

The main body of the score is the work of Hilmarsson, who with over twenty soundtracks to his name is Iceland’s most prolific film composer. In 1995 he won European Film Composer of the Year for his work on the Oscar nominated ‘Children Of Nature’, for which he also collaborated with Fridriksson and ‘Angels of the Universe’ writer, Einar Mar Gudmundsson. Here his work is given almost unbearable poignancy by the knowledge that not only is the movie’s doomed protagonist the writer’s real life brother, but also a personal friend of Hilmarsson.

‘Angels of the Universe’ has been adapted by Gudmundsson from his award-winning novel, and tells his late brother’s tragic story as it painfully explores the further reaches of madness and destruction. It is the fourth cooperation between Gudmundsson and Fridriksson.