Sigur Rós drummer Orri Páll Dýrason has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Los Angeles in 2013. In response, he has left the band, according to a post on their Facebook page Monday morning (October 1). “In the wake of the extremely serious and personal allegations made against him in recent days,” band members Jónsi and Georg Hólm wrote, “we have today accepted the resignation of our bandmate Orri Páll Dýrason to allow him to deal with this privately.” When contacted by Pitchfork for further comment, a representative for Sigur Rós’ pointed to the band's Facebook statement, as well as one made by Dýrason on his own Facebook page.

The allegations emerged last week, when Los Angeles-based artist Meagan Boyd wrote on Instagram:

“I was drunk, and I had met him at a club (I had a brief period in which I was a dancer at a club called ‘the body shop’), I also engaged in a kiss with him before falling asleep in the same bed, after that I completely knocked out. I woke up with the feeling of being penetrated without my consent during a deep slumber.... It happened twice that night, and I wondered [to] myself why I didn’t leave after the first time—but I was drunk, dead tired, in shock, and this was right before I ever heard of anything like Uber/Lyft.... But none of that should matter because no one deserves to be raped/touched/licked/fucked without CONSENT.”

In a separate Instagram post from last week, which has since been deleted, Boyd shared an alleged email conversation between herself and Dýrason, in which he disputed her recollection of the night in question. “I cannot understand why you would want to publicly accuse me of something I did not do,” he allegedly said. Later, he allegedly added, “I am so sorry you are going through all this. But my experience from that night is completely different from yours.”

“We had a nice night drawing and drinking at my flat; and then we went to bed. The next day you even wanted to stay and asked me if you could, but I had to go to the studio and you got upset about that. We had a good time together. I like your art and I think you are a talented artist and I enjoyed being with you.”