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Grapevine Playlist: Tómas Welding, Ægir, Aron Can, Countess Malaise & More!
We’re sorry about the lack of TS10 yesterday, but hopefully these tracks can make up for it. Tómas Welding – Here They Come Tómas has always had that unique ability to sing three simple words such as “We say goodnight,” and imbue…
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Volcano And Drone: A Seismic Soundtrack
Images of Iceland’s recent volcanic activity have travelled around the globe, and touched people’s imagination in a variety of ways. A short sequence of drone footage recently captured by The Grapevine even moved one Australian composer to write a soundtrack for it.…
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Grapevine Playlist: BSÍ, Lord Pusswhip, Pale Moon, Blankiflúr & More!
Happy summer! You know what goes great with summer? Music! Also vaccines! Pale Moon – Parachutes Just in time for summer (ok Icelandic summer), Pale Moon has blessed us with what is perhaps the most perfect driving-in-the-sunlight track ever made. Genuinely, if…
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Grapevine Playlist: Hipsumhaps, KALEO, The Vintage Caravan, Stefán Hafsteinsson & More!
Over music? Don’t be. Check out these new releases instead. Kaleo – Skinny Oh Kaleo—we didn’t ask to be sad today, but you did it anyway, didn’t you? “Skinny” is, to be frank, difficult to listen to. A distorted rock track about…
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Grapevine Playlist: Eternal Life, A Funeral Dirge And A Love Letter
Buck the algorithm, and let The Grapevine pick your playlist. Kælan Mikla – Sólstöður This track demonstrates that Kælan Mikla keeps evolving in ever-improving directions. Slaps like a funeral dirge but carries the power of a blizzard on the horizon heading quickly your way. We have…
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Music News: Skálmöld, GusGus And A New Label
It’s finally here! The official biography no Viking saw coming about the legendary Icelandic metal band Skálmöld. And by Mímír’s head, we are going to read this until it evaporates. Surprisingly, the book also reveals that our dear president, the sensitive boy…
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The Dawn Of Eydís Evensen: Presenting A Composer And A Whirlwind Emotional Journey
From the northern Icelandic town of Blönduós emerged 27-year-old composer Eydís Evensen, who burst onto the scene this December with a slew of gorgeous post-classical pieces with haunting music videos to match. She’s on the cusp of releasing her debut effort, ‘BYLUR’,…
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Track By Track: ‘Hvítir Hrafnar’ By dady
dady—formerly Dadykewl—has been on a three-year hiatus since his last effort ‘Klámstjarna’. But thankfully, Iceland’s resident lovestruck, sullen, smooth af singer has returned with ‘Hvítir Hrafnar’, an album about growing up, falling in love, getting wise, and getting sad. We sat down…
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Stepping Into The Sun: RAKEL Is Here With A Dreamy, Escapist Debut
“The whole EP is about feeling a little bit unsure of what you’re doing in life,” Rakel Sigurðardóttir says softly. “Just in general. Your place, where you’re at—it’s about kind of escaping your reality in some way.” She pauses, looking around for…
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A Harp, A Human, And A Machine: Úlfur Hansson’s Segulharpa Births A New Sound
“When it worked and I finally got the string sound working correctly, it was pure magic,” Úlfur Hansson says—a big smile on his face. He’s fresh off of taking first prize at this year’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition with his own instrument,…
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Sensory Overload: The Delicious Cacophony Of Susan_creamcheese
Enter the fantasy: You’re on a weirdly positive bath salts trip. It’s the peak of the party and the noise of the dance floor begins to envelop your soul, drowning out the pumping of blood through your pounding eardrums. You can’t breathe.…
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Huginn’s Artist Playlist: A Mixtape To Make You Feel It All
Huginn plays those weirdly special easy-going autotune hip-hop jams that kind of work in every situation. It’s actually kind of eerie. Anyway, he just dropped his newest track ‘Geimfarar’ in late February, which you can check out on all streaming services. We…
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Sin Fang Slam Dunks New Video
Icelandic musician Sindri Már Sigfússon has many different aspects to his musicality, making him pleasingly impossible to put in a box. Which is perhaps as well; pigeonholes are, after all, best reserved for pigeons. Depending on his creative focus at any point…
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A Tourist, No More: On His Debut Effort, Axel Flóvent Returns Home
Perhaps Axel Flóvent’s debut album ‘You Stay by the Sea’ is the album 2021 needs, even if it doesn’t know it yet. After the chaos of 2020, Axel’s calming, homey tones feel like a retreat into the quiet, carefree warmth of childhood—the…
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Grapevine Playlist: Possimiste, EYJAA, Krummi, Magnús Jóhann & More!
March has arrived—can you believe it? We don’t! But with a new month brings some new music. Therefore, here’s the Grapevine picks for this week. Fríd – Woods Fríd’s got an interesting dichotomy—her lyrics and melody could easily place her in the…
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Grapevine Playlist: Huginn, Ólafur Arnalds, ZÖE & More!
Start your weekend off right with this selection of new tracks. All brought to you in the midst of earthquakes shaking our office. Eek. Huginn – Geimfarar Huginn is quite the dark horse when it comes to hip-hop and RnB in Iceland.…
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Track By Track: Occurrence – Iceland Symphony Orchestra Project, Vol. 3
The finale in the trio of albums from the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with Sono Luminus, ‘Occurrence’ presents works by five contemporary Icelandic composers: Daníel Bjarnason, Veronique Vaka, Haukur Tómasson, Þuríður Jónsdóttir and Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson. The effort follows the Iceland…
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The Surreal Life Of Sturle Dagsland… Is Now Available on His Self-Titled Debut
“When I was 10 years old, I got the Aqua ‘Aquarium’ album for Christmas from my Grandmother,” Sturle Dagsland explains, when asked where his love for music began. “Then there was a contest at school and I planned to perform ‘Barbie Girl’…
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Sunna Friðjóns & Her Spells: Forage Through A Dewy Forest For Some Magical Music
When Sunna Friðjónsdóttir, who performs under Sunna Fridjóns, approached making her newest effort ‘Let the Light in’, she says she wanted it to sound big. “I wanted to put some power in it, some epic-ness to the foundation and to not be…
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Grapevine Playlist: CeaseTone, ALVIA, Jónsi, GusGus & More!
We love music! We love it a lot! We listen to it everyday! Just try us! CeaseTone – Continents They say January is the most depressing month of the year (especially when the light of the vaccinated tunnel still feels so far…
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VIDEO: Alvia Is Back With “Pistol Pony” 🔫 🦄
Notorious elegant hoe, bubblegum bitch, and snow queen Alvia Islandia is finally here with her long-awaited “Pistol Pony”—a song she’s been teasing since the releases of 2016’s ‘Bubblegum Bitch’, and 2017’s ‘Elegant Hoe’ and something we, along with all the other elegant…
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The Grapevine Music Awards 2021: Bríet & JFDR – In Conversation
At the 2021 Grapevine Music Awards, the three biggest categories—Artist, Song and Album Of The Year—were decided the quickest. In fact, they were more or less unanimous the moment each was brought up, with little debate among the panel. 2020 was unequivocally…
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Grapevine Music Awards 2021: Shout Out – Rough Cult & Auður
The Grapevine Music Awards 2021 Shout Out award applauds two stellar projects this year. First off, we celebrate Rough Cult for their innovative music videos and second, Auður for keeping culture alive during the pandemic. Shout Out: Rough Cult Production company Rough…