Sigur Rós have announced the dates for their fall North American tour. It includes performances at the Hollywood Bowl, Radio City Music Hall, and more. According to a press release, the band will perform without their brass and string sections, and without support acts. The shows will start at 8:30 p.m. sharp and feature two sets from the band, separated by an intermission. The press release also states: "The shows will give the group a chance to road test new music, the first time since the tour leading up to the acclaimed ( ) album in 2002 that the band has performed new material ahead of album recording sessions. Alongside this experimentation played out in public, the band is also planning on attempting new interpretations of old songs that haven't been played in a very long time." See the dates and a teaser video for the tour below. Update (4/11, 12:08 p.m.): Sigur Rós have added two new tour dates. They'll play second shows at Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre (September 18) and Brooklyn's Kings Theatre (October 7).

In a statement last year, the band said:

Every time you go on tour you want it to be different…and every time it is, usually because you have a new album you want to play people. And that can be fun, because you have to work out how to recreate all the complicated stuff you did in the studio for the stage. But there was a time when things were the other way round, when we worked stuff out on the road, and trying to capture lightning in a bottle was a problem for the studio later on. This time, in addition to playing songs you know, we wanted to remember the seat-of-your-pants feeling experienced in the wake of ágætis byrjun, when for two years we formed and re-formed the songs that would go on to be the ( ) album live in front of people, night after night. All we can say right now is it’s going to be different, with new unreleased songs, a new show and maybe some other new things. Beyond that, we can only ask you to trust us on this one.

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