Cam Findlay, Journalist

“It’s hard to explain that, but I’d been through a lot of changes in my life, and over the last five years I’ve been taught some interesting lessons, you know?"

"During the incident, while he was, like, bleeding on the footpath, he yelled out, ‘Don’t fuck with our dreams’ to the guy that was... ah... hurting him. And that quickly became a mantra for the rest of the tour."

"Radiothon is the one time in the year where we pretty much turn the spotlight inwards and big-up ourselves"

"I mean, here’s the thing: we were just talking about how when you put something out, it’s dead to you, so that whole idea doesn’t really enter into it for me."

Not to say that Sound Awake wasn’t a good album, but it definitely didn’t capture the purpose that made Themata so loved. Asymmetry is different.

Their obvious love of meshing sounds and easy coolness turns this into a grand adventure of sound and, at the best moments, light and shade.

“We thought that we had cracked the way to tour, and we thought we were so experienced in it... but it’s been the total opposite. You really just forget how full-on it is."

Magna Carta... rightly stands as some of his finest work.

"I ended up feeling like it wasn’t satisfying enough for me [though], because it wasn’t a vocally-driven project, and I wanted to do more lyrical stuff, so that’s why I [left]."

It’s a vast departure, sure, but Sigur Ros have tapped into a primal and enchanting energy on Kveikur.