OF MONSTERS AND MEN UNVEIL AWARD-WINNING & ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY TÍU ON YOUTUBE TODAY

 
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 (10^th 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 (10^th Anniversary Edition) HERE.
 
Stay tuned for more from Of Monsters and Men soon. 
 
OF MONSTERS AND MEN went from the talk of Iceland to the top of the global conversation on their 2011 debut, My Head Is An Animal which landed the band a performance on Saturday Night Live. The group appeared on official soundtracks for franchises such as The Hunger Games, The Walking Dead, and Beat Bugs, to name a few. In addition to performing at festivals such as Coachella, Lollapalooza, Firefly, and beyond, they supported Florence + the Machine on a high-profile arena tour. In the midst of this rapid rise, 2015’s Beneath The Skin bowed in the Top 3 of the Billboard Top 200 and the band had a coveted cameo in an episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones in the same year. In 2019, the group welcomed listeners into the embrace of their critically acclaimed third full-length album, FEVER DREAM. Not only did the record tally 80 million-plus total streams to date, but it also attracted acclaim from Billboard, NPR, The Line of Best Fit, Independent, Paste, and more. Clash Magazine claimed, “The songs also have an emotional content to them that is hard to ignore.” Q Magazine praised it as “a dizzying rush of exuberance and emotion…their transformation into an arena-ready pop beast is complete.” Notably, the single “Alligator” made history by completing “their quickest climb to #1 on the Adult Alternative Songs Airplay Chart,” as reported by Billboard. In addition to selling out dates coast-to-coast on the FEVER DREAM Tour, the group delivered rapturous television performances on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Ellen. 
 

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