I always look forward to the last song on a new album. To me, it sums up everything that ever went into the making of this piece of art, and usually holds a special place in the artists’ heart. It’s sentimentalism, that we save the best for last, but...

it’s taken more than two years for ólöf arnalds‘ debut album við og við to reach a wider audience beyond iceland, but like any good wine it’s matured wonderfully in the process. while her magical voice is reminiscent of folk seamstresses vashti...

i woke up this morning with this incessant racket reverberating in my head. i just couldn’t pin it down, except for this dissonant, off-kilter alarm going back and forth, sometimes going a key up, sometimes just getting hazier and noisier than before....

Sometimes when you first open your eyes, you already hear the song playing. As you lie in bed, listening intently, you play out the events that will unfold today. You’re editing the montage of events that will define your life, at least for today. By...

according to jerry harrison of the talking heads, a principle that shaped the production of the band’s early albums was that each one should be recorded in a different place, in a different way. this quest for each record to embody an “individual...