Sigur Ros have announced the release of their seventh album this June, entitled Kveikur.

Their first album as a trio, the album will be released on June 17, and the Icelandic band have premiered the video for the first track to be re

leased from the album – ‘Brenninstein’ – today.

If Sigur Ros have been lumped in with the ‘post-rock’ (discuss) movement, then the emphasis with this track is on the rock. It’s far harder sounding than anything else they’ve produced so far, but it still sounds lik

e Sigur Ros. The video is -as you’d hope and expect- slightly disturbing, hard to make sense of and yet oddly beautiful at the same time.

The single can be downloaded (for the princely sum of £2) from here. The tracklisting for the album can be found here and the tour dates can be found here.

And it would be good to know what you think…