K.óla released Icelandic version of her recent English album, and it’s a quiet masterpiece about friendship, love and loneliness.
After one full-length album and a couple of EPs sung in Icelandic, one of the island’s most talented singer-songwriters realeased her first record in English earlier this year called “Sex on a cloud”.
We don’t mind it that much as the songwriting and sound were exceptional, but now hearing this material with Icelandic lyrics makes you realize this was the last missing piece of a quiet masterpiece about friendship and love, longing and loneliness, past and future.
The album “Skiptir mig máli” (“Doesn’t matter to me”) proves that K.óla has two outstanding and obviously fundamental talents: writing great, memorable melodies and performing them in a mesmerizing way, surrounded by meticulous arrangements and dialoguing with sax.
The tension between friendship and love, longing and loneliness, trying to forget about the past and dreaming dreams about the future are just some of the topics of “Skiptir mig máli”, which includes some of the most beautiful songs we’ve heard recently, now with no pieces missing.
Stream “Skiptir mig máli” LP on Spotify and YouTube.
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