Sigur Ros issued Saturday via their website, a new track entitled refur. The site writes:

refur is a unique sigur rós song as it marks the first time that kjartan steps away from his usual background vocals and takes the lead vocals. as a result, the song has taken a more upbeat direction than the band’s previous works, which, according to jónsi, is likely to characterize the band’s future releases.

In addition to the great April Fool’s joke, the Icelandic post-rockers have added france, poland, england, luxembourg and portugal to their tour. The trip now encompasses:

england
• march 27 • manchester apollo, manchester
• march 28 • hammersmith apollo, london
• march 29 • hammersmith apollo, london
japan
• april 02 • zepp, nagoya • sold out
• april 03 • namba hatch, osaka • sold out
• april 04 • shibuya-ax, tokyo april
• 05 • shibuya-ax, tokyo
hong kong
• april 07 • hitec, hong kong
australia
• april 09 • perth concert hall, perth
• april 11 • the palais, melbourne
• april 12 • the enmore, sydney
• april 13 • east coast blues & roots festival, byron bay
• april 14 • the great escape festival, sydney
• april 15 • the tivoli, brisbane
new zealand
• april 17 • st james, auckland
united states
• april 29 • coachella festival, indio california
• may 1 • marin center, san rafael, california
• may 3 • benaroya hall, seattle, washington
• may 4 • arlene schnitzer, portland, oregon
• may 5 • big easy concert house, boise, idaho
• may 8 • orpheum rheatre, minneapolis, minnesota
• may 9 • civic opera house, chicago, illinois
• may 10 • the riverside, milwaukee, wisconsin
• may 11 • state theatre, detroit, Michigan
canada
• may 13 • massey hall, toronto, ontario
united states
• may 14 • bank of america pavillion, boston, massachusetts
germany
• june 23 • southside fesitval, beuhausen ob eck
• june 24 • hurricane festival, eichenring
• june 25 • lichtburg, essen
norway
• june 27 • oslo spektrum, oslo
sweden
• june 28 • dalhalla, rättvik
denmark
• june 29 • roskilde festival belgium
• july 01 • rock werchter festival
france
• july 02 • les eurockéennes de belfort festival
italy
• july 04 • piazza castello, ferrara
france
• july 06 • olympia, paris
poland
• july 07 • heineken open’er festival
scotland
• july 08 • t in the park festival, scotland
ireland
• july 09 • oxegen festival, ireland
england
• july 11 • guildhall, southampton
luxembourg
• july 12 • neumünster abbey
spain
• july 14 • summercase festival, barcelona
• july 15 • summercase festival, madrid
portgual
• july 16 • pavilhão atlântico, lisbon