We’re thrilled to share VAR's new Audiotree session. The four song session was filmed at Orgelsmidjan, Iceland's only functioning pipe organ workshop, which also serves as the band’s practice space — and though we’re a bit biased, it's one of the most beautiful, transcendent live performances that we've seen during these unique and crazy times. These songs appear on the band's new Live at Orgelsmidjan EP which is available everywhere now.

After the release of VAR's debut full length, The Never-Ending Year, and amidst the global pandemic, opportunities to perform the record live were nonexistent. "We felt like we had to do something to give people at least a little taste of us playing these songs live," says Júlíus Óttar Björgvinsson, "VAR has always been about playing live, and we always give everything we have to make the tension between us and the audience both peaceful and powerful." After some discussion, the next best option in lieu of live performance was a series of live performance videos, filmed at the organ...

Watch VAR's new music video for "Run" now exclusively at The Alternative. The song comes off the band’s mesmerizing new album The Never-Ending Year which is available everywhere now. Watch it below and then stream the album that The Alternative calls "a beautiful flurry of spacious post-rock, anthemic alt-rock, and even languid dream pop at times...at once serene and propulsive" here.  

We’re excited to premiere VAR’s new music video for “Moments” today with Popdust. The video was shot in the town of Stokkseyri, about an hour outside of Reykjavik on the southern coast of Iceland, at the country's only existing organ workshop (which happens to be owned by the father of brothers and bandmates Júlíus Óttar and Egill Björgvinsson). The band's new album The Never-Ending Year is available everywhere now here!