Sigur Rós singer-songwriter Jónsi has announced a new album titled “First Light”.
In anticipation of the album’s release on August 30, the Icelandic artist has shared two songs: “Flicker” and “Cherry Blossom.” Originally conceived as a video game soundtrack, Jónsi partnered with the platform Myndstream, which will release the album in collaboration with Lakeshore.
In a press release, Jónsi said: “I wrote this music in a time of global upheaval and man-made conflict for a video game. I imagined ‘First Light’ as a utopian world, momentarily fantastical and exaggerated, where everyone and everything lives together in eternal peace and harmony. Choosing beauty over disorder, hope over fear, our universal divine angelic guardians watching over us and connecting us all as one through love, melody and music.”
Jónsi’s last solo work was “Obsidian” (2021), although in 2023 he returned with the rest of Sigur Rós with the publication of “Átta”.