New York, NY (DECEMBER 13, 2023)- Today, multi-platinum Icelanders Of Monsters and Men proudly present their award-winning and acclaimed short documentary TÍU on YouTube. Following the premiere at 12pm EST, the band will go live for a YouTube after party, engaging fans worldwide for what promises to be a very special chat.
Watch TÍU—HERE.
When the band’s 2020 world tour was canceled due to the Covid pandemic, they set out on a friends and family road trip/adventure around their native Iceland. Footage shot by friend and director Dean Deblois (How To Train Your Dragon, Lilo and Stitch and Sigur Ros’ Heima) ultimately became what is now the short documentary TÍU which has been recognized as an “Official Selection” at 2022 & 2023 film festivals around the world including a world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival and an international premiere at the Reykjavik International Film Festival. It also garnered an award in the category of “Best Short” at the 2023 Dumbo Film Festival.
Following its Tribeca debut, The Wrap christened it as “an intimate gem,” going on to elaborate, “This is intimate music in an expansive setting, and a lovely way to capture the artistry and humanity of this band.”
Now, audiences everywhere can get even closer to Of Monsters and Men in TÍU.
You can listen to the accompanying EP released in 2020, also titled TÍU, HERE.
In other news, Of Monsters and Men are currently hunkered down in Iceland working on their fourth full-length album. New music is expected to drop in late 2024.
Last year the band released The Cabin Sessions, which premiered on YouTube and as a full album. At the end of filming TÍU, they recorded a stripped down performance of My Head Is An Animal in its entirety at a cabin in Iceland.The Cabin Sessions premiered on YouTube, and the band also hosted a small fundraiser on platform for World Central Kitchen (https://wck.org), an organization that provides fresh meals to refugees.
Check out My Head Is An Animal “Cabin Sessions” HERE
Adding to the accolades in 2021, Of Monsters and Men released the official vinyl for their My Head Is An Animal (10th Anniversary Edition) which celebrates a decade of their critically acclaimed platinum debut album. The anniversary edition includes two previously unreleased tracks and as part of the release, last fall, the band performed a series of intimate hometown shows at Gamla Bio and livestreamed them to audiences across the world from Reykjavik, Iceland. Check out the My Head Is An Animal (10th Anniversary Edition) HERE.
