Tuesday, April 23 2013
Ólöf Arnalds: Sudden Elevation
On her third full length Ólöf Arnalds marries tradition and innovation. The language she does it in hardly matters.
Thursday, November 10 2011
Ólöf Arnalds: Ólöf Sings EP
The Icelandic singer-songwriter serves up a fine quintet of English-language songs; highlights include covers of Springsteen, Dylan, and Johnny Cash.
Monday, August 30 2010
Trúbrot: Trúbrot
The musicians make a bold bid for unoriginality by spending most of their time covering the songs of other people.
Tuesday, August 24 2010
Óðmenn: Óðmenn
Óðmenn sits not only on the cusp of two decades, but also on the cusp of two sounds. One is younger, grubbier and percussive, the other is more expansive and guitar-rooted.
Monday, March 29 2010
Seabear: We Built a Fire
Icelandic septet sits down around the communal campfire and serenades us with set of hush-hush, folk-pop that doesn't so much "build a fire" as put one out.
Thursday, February 26 2009
Various Artists: Made in Iceland
This collection might have been swallowed up by Iceland's financial crisis, but perhaps that's just as well -- it probably wouldn't have made much of an impact anyway.
Wednesday, February 18 2009
Sin Fang Bous: Clangour
Clangour may not be perfect, but it positively brims with perfect, unabashedly psychedelic moments.
Friday, October 10 2008
Ólafur Arnalds: Eulogy for Evolution
The pathos that runs through both albums is powerful, flexible, something more complex than simple melancholy.
