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Sigur Rós serves up some mush on their first album in a decade. ÁTTA by Sigur Rós
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Exhilarating, inspired, and poignant at points, Fossora still feels like one of Björk’s least fully realized albums. fossora by Björk
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Hof by Misþyrming The B-side of Misþyrming and Sinmara’s split 10″ on Terratur Possessions. Some quality Icelandic black metal right here!
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NPR is streaming Icelandic composer Anna Þorvaldsdóttir’s new work In the Light of Air ahead of its August 28 release on Sono Luminus. Listen in if you’re in the mood for haunting music evocative of a remote land.
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Í sporum annarra by Logn Some strange grindcore from Reykjavík quartet Logn!
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A new track from Icelandic rock outfit Sólstafir. Over the years, the band has built an international reputation off its long, expansive, and epic songs. At nine minutes, this new track is nothing to shrug your shoulders at. It’s got every from glacial walls of guitar to a plucky
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Icelandic electronic musician and contemporary classical music composer Jóhann Jóhannsson broke into the mainstream consciousness earlier this year with his breathtaking score for the acclaimed Hollywood film Prisoners. Now, he’s set to take his astounding score for last year’s Bill Morrison-directed documentary The Miners’ Hymns on the road
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In lieu of her upcoming string of live shows, Icelandic folk songstress Ólöf Arnalds (formerly of múm) has dropped a free four-track-long EP of previously unreleased material. Above, give a listen to “Af stað,” originally written by Arnalds for Björk and Sigur Rós’ 2008 Náttúra concert in Reykjavík. You can
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For the fourth episode of their “Empty Space” series, La Blogothèque and Converse invited Icelandic post-rock outfit Sigur Rós to perform a song in a cave “somewhere under Paris.” The trio was accompanied by a string, brass, and percussion ensemble and performed the soaring Kveikur cut “Hrafntinna.” The cave’s
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Last month, ambient musician Julianna Barwick dropped her sophomore LP Nepenthe, among the most delicate and ethereal releases of the year. Be sure to check out this breathtaking rendition of album highlight “‘The Harbinger,” which she performed live on a lakeshore in Iceland for La Blogothèque’s Take Away Shows.
