Acclaimed for film scoring in the past 15 years, Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has recently
become the trusted go-to collaborator for director Denis Villeneuve and his stunning pictures, 2013's Prisoners and 2015's Sicario. Now they have delivered their third collaboration, ...
Ask the Deep is the second full-length album by Icelandic singer and multi-instrumentalist Sóley Stefánsdóttir.
Building on the elegantly moody art pop of her 2011 debut We Sink, Ask the Deep is ultimately bigger in scope, though no brighter in ...
Specializing in a cinematic spectacle that evokes wide-open vistas as much as the fathomless depths
of an arena, Of Monsters and Men sometimes do sound as majestic as their dreams on Beneath the Skin, pulsating on the waves of insistent ...
Arriving just one year after the release of 2015's post-hiatus comeback LP, the gold-selling Immortalized,
the Windy City metal veterans storm the stage with a concert album recorded at Colorado's legendary Red Rocks amphitheater. The aptly named Live at Red ...
Violinist/composer Eyvind Kang seems to take his time and try to do something distinct with
each album -- from the noisy, quick-change collages of 7 NADEs to the mellower, more song-based instrumentals of theater of mineral NADEs -- and this ...
All too often, when a band loses core members, it's a bad sign -- and
that goes double if the departing member is a vocalist. In Múm's case, however, paring down to just Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason ...
After floating in the same cirrus clouds for a decade, it would seem that the
time has come for a change. Not to say that the lulling orchestral swells or Jon Birgisson's schoolboy falsetto have lost any of their magic ...
Because Emiliana Torrini hails from Iceland and favors mid-tempo electronica behind her smooth pop melodies,
comparisons to Björk are inevitable. On those few occasions on Love in the Time of Science when Torrini sings out and lets her voice soar, ...