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K.óla released Icelandic version of her recent English album, and it’s a quiet masterpiece about friendship, love and loneliness.

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K.óla

Friendship and love, longing and loneliness, past and future, Icelandic singer-songwriter K.óla’s new album is as universal as it gets.

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Una Torfa

Una Torfa enters the Icelandic music scene with a bang with the LP “Flækt og týnd og einmana”.

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Teitur Magnússon

Teitur Magnússon is an unusual character, and would be in any music scene.

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Mammút

Icelandic rockers release a new video to remind us of their captivating fourth album.

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Mammút

Icelandic rockers release a new video to remind us of their captivating fourth album.

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Sweden

Freyr Flodgren

An introspective new piece from the Stockholm-based singer-songwriter.

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Sweden

Freyr Flodgren

An introspective new piece from the Stockholm-based singer-songwriter.

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Sólveig Matthildur

Sólveig Matthildur rose to prominence as a member of DIY goth-wave trio Kælan Mikla, but her self-released debut solo album is a revelation.

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Sólveig Matthildur

Sólveig Matthildur rose to prominence as a member of DIY goth-wave trio Kælan Mikla, but her self-released debut solo album is a revelation.

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USA

Contemporary classical? Experimental? Ambient? Folk? Luxembourg-born, Icelandic-raised, NYC-based composer, producer and songwriter Úlfur Hansson likes to have it together on the same album, and sometimes at the same time.

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USA

Úlfur

Contemporary classical? Experimental? Ambient? Folk? Luxembourg-born, Icelandic-raised, NYC-based composer, producer and songwriter Úlfur Hansson likes to have it together on the same album, and sometimes at the same time.

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Björk

Iceland’s best-known musician dropped a new LP this year, and it’s quite a journey, clocking in at over 71 minutes.

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Björk

Iceland’s best-known musician dropped a new LP this year, and it’s quite a journey, clocking in at over 71 minutes.

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Hatari

Hatari are a conceptual art-pop trio whose music incorporates elements of techno, industrial and synth pop in a quite dizzying presentation.

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Hatari

Hatari are a conceptual art-pop trio whose music incorporates elements of techno, industrial and synth pop in a quite dizzying presentation.

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