Sigur Rós Have Almost Finished Writing Their Next Album

Icelandic post-rock legends Sigur Rós have finished the majority of their eagerly awaited eighth studio album, the band's first new full-length since 2013's Kveikur, bassist/keyboardist Georg Holm has said.

Speaking to The Music's Anthony Carew recently, Holm said that it feels as though the band are about "85%" of the way through the next release, feeling "like we need maybe two, maybe three more songs, before we can start to understand it as a full record".

The band has so far officially previewed only one track that will presumably be found on the record: last year's Óveður. But, with Sigur Rós set to touch down in Australia as part of this July's Splendour In The Grass line-up, it's entirely possible that Australian audiences may yet cop an earful of some of the new goods in the wild.

Either way, it's good to know that it's all starting to come together. However, we wouldn't start getting too excited just yet as, he says, "none of us really know where we are at" in terms of actually releasing the finished product, although he sounds pretty stoked with the general direction it's taking.

"We just start making music, and let the music dictate, on its own, where it wants to go," he told Carew.

"The music that we're working on is very mixed, with very, very new sounds that I haven't heard us creating before," he continued. "There's a very, very broad spectrum to it.

"To me, some of it is almost nostalgic; it reminds me of when I was younger, it has this aggression, the kind that we used to put into our music … When we create aggressive music, it’s not because we’re angry. It’s because we’re happy."