I don't want to be lazy, but Anthony from the Alternative Music Blog on About.com does as good a job as anyone introducing the new project from our singer, Jonsi, and Alex Somers:
Amidst all the Americana, folksiness, and indie-rock moves of the almighty, compilation-for-a-generation Dark Was the Night, few songs seemed so radically 'other' as "Happiness," that eight-and-a-half-minute burbling ambient blow-out from Riceboy Sleeps.
The artistic marriage of Sigur Rós's Jón Þór 'Jónsi' Birgisson and Parachutes' Alex Somers, Riceboy Sleeps started out as a product of the pair's domestic union; songs built together, late at night, on laptops. Of course, Riceboy ...