Only four months after Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Rós announced an indefinite hiatus, frontman Jónsi Birgisson’s debut solo album go finds the ethereal singer releasing his best work in five ...

Go his first solo album, he envisioned a record that would provide a home for some of the songs he’d written over the years that were never quite right for the band. Jónsi originally imagined it would ...

When Sigur Ros announced last month that they had a brand new album recorded and ready to go, the collective sigh of relief could be traced all the way from the United Kingdom to the United States and ...

If some longtime fans are disappointed, it’s only because they crave the inscrutability, the self-delusion that Sigur Rós’s music arrived from some exotic domain further away than a mere plane flight.

For 16 years, Jon Thor Birgisson has, under the sobriquet Jonsi, sketched surreal soundscapes with his Reykjavik-based art-rock outfit Sigur Ros, coaxing curious tones from his guitar with a cello bow ...