Kveikur (song)

The song appeared on the Icelandic Tónlist chart in the week of the release of Kveikur, thanks to strong digital sales of the album, which debuted at No.

[1] A live version of the song, recorded during the Sigur Rós World Tour, was released as a promotional single on commercial music streaming service Spotify on July 11, 2013[2] as part of a three-week promotional deal which saw live recordings of Kveikur songs being released on Spotify each week.

Sigur Rós made their first television appearance in nearly a decade,[7] performing the song on the March 23, 2013 airing NBC late-night talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

[9] A video for "Kveikur" to be used as a backdrop for the song when it was played on the Sigur Rós World Tour was created.

Directed by Sarah Hopper and edited by Damian Hale,[10] the video features re-purposed footage taken from the British Film Institute's National Archive, which includes stock film of a traveling horse, film taken from a British convoy crossing the Rhine during World War II and archived footage of the British nuclear tests at Maralinga and other Australian-based tests during the former stages of the Cold War.