icelandic
4. Arve Henriksen, Hilmar Jensson & Skúli Sverrisson – Saumur
I love so much this record. I am a huge fan of icelandic musician Skúli Sverrisson and his work. The melodies and the ambiance have blown my mind. Give this album some time, and for sure, use your headphones
Arve Henriksen’s voice is everything. The songs’ titles are based on a poem by icelandic musician Ólöf Arnalds that perhaps implicate the journey that the listener is invited to enter:
Came
Then
From beneath
Beauty
My
Open
Tender
Grace
5. Amiina -Fantômas
6. Xeno & Oaklander – Topiary
7. Jóhann Jóhannsson – Orphée
8. Steve Hauschildt – Strands
9. Clark – The Last Panthers
10. Eluvium – False Readings On
11. Alex Somers – Captain Fantastic (Music From The Film)
12. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
13. Agnes Obel – Citizen of Glass
14. Dan Lissvik – Midnight
15. Anohni – Hopelessness
16. El Perro Del Mar – KoKoro
17. Tasseomancy – Do Easy
18. La Femme – Mystère
19. Anonymous Choir – Anonymous Choir Sings STAX
20. Plaid – The Digging Remedy
5. Amiina – Fantômas
Mengi is my favourite icelandic label. This year Amiina composed a live score to a silent masterpiece from 1913. It’s full of pounding rythms, haunting melodies but also melancholic and ethereal. I was actually amazed by this album as a whole and I have to point the fact that I was in a shock when I listened to the album for the first time. [headphones of course]. When the magical, fragile sound world of Amiina meets the terror something unexpected and truly magical happens.
6. Xeno & Oaklander – Topiary
7. Jóhann Jóhannsson – Orphée
8. Steve Hauschildt – Strands
9. Clark – The Last Panthers
10. Eluvium – False Readings On
11. Alex Somers – Captain Fantastic (Music From The Film)
12. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
13. Agnes Obel – Citizen of Glass
14. Dan Lissvik – Midnight
15. Anohni – Hopelessness
16. El Perro Del Mar – KoKoro
17. Tasseomancy – Do Easy
18. La Femme – Mystère
19. Anonymous Choir – Anonymous Choir Sings STAX
20. Plaid – The Digging Remedy
7. Jóhann Jóhannsson – Orphée
It’s his first album since ‘Fordlandia'[2009, yeap, it’s been that long!] and I think it was rewarding.The re-tellings of the poet Orpheus was an inspiring theme to adjust the modern reality and the darkness of the world. We were supposed to be guided into the light, that’s a very common phrase among the blogs and the critics. But I deeply disagree 🙂 I think that Light never was his intention in his personal albums. All I feel is the raw beauty of change, the dark paths along. It’s all about acknowledging and the reflections of memory. Embrace.
8. Steve Hauschildt – Strands
9. Clark – The Last Panthers
10. Eluvium – False Readings On
11. Alex Somers – Captain Fantastic (Music From The Film)
12. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
13. Agnes Obel – Citizen of Glass
14. Dan Lissvik – Midnight
15. Anohni – Hopelessness
16. El Perro Del Mar – KoKoro
17. Tasseomancy – Do Easy
18. La Femme – Mystère
19. Anonymous Choir – Anonymous Choir Sings STAX
20. Plaid – The Digging Remedy
11. Alex Somers – Captain Fantastic (Music From The Film)
What a surprise! If you also think that Valtari is the best album from Sigur Rós in the recent years, here I present you Valtari II 🙂 🙂
12. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
13. Agnes Obel – Citizen of Glass
14. Dan Lissvik – Midnight
15. Anohni – Hopelessness
16. El Perro Del Mar – KoKoro
17. Tasseomancy – Do Easy
18. La Femme – Mystère
19. Anonymous Choir – Anonymous Choir Sings STAX
20. Plaid – The Digging Remedy
9. Sóley – Ask The Deep
10. Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
11. Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness
12. Zhala – Zhala
13. U.S. Girls – Half Free
14. Son Lux – Bones
15. Molly Nilsson – Zenith
16. Ben Chatwin – The Sleeper Awakes
17. Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi
18. Jamie xx – In Colour
19. Purity Ring – Another Eternity
20. Empress Of – Me
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