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The Reykjavík Grapevine presents Icelandic music news along with new Icelandic albums and/or tracks.
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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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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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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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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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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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Grapevine Playlist: Bashar Murad, Oscar Leone, Birnir, Páll Óskar & More!
Music—have you of it? Here’s some of our favourite tracks from the last month. Bashar Murad – MASKHARA Bashar Murad—who you might know from his collaborations with Hatari and appearance at Airwaves 2019—is here to sway away the bullshit. This track, which…
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Track By Track: ‘Inspector Spacetime’ By… Inspector Spacetime
Dance-lovers Inspector Spacetime—Egill Gauti Sigurjónsson, Vaka Agnarsdóttir and Elías Geir Óskarsson—walk us through their debut effort track by track. Intro The simplest track on the album is the silliest at the same time. The sample at the beginning is the origin of…
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Track By Track: ‘What Love Is’ By Rex Pistols
Goth isn’t dead, people. It’s alive and thriving in downtown Reykjavík in the form of Rex Pistols, who recently dropped ‘What Love Is,’ a soundtrack for the lace-gown-wearing introspective romantic heroines of the world. To satiate our synthcore goth needs, we sat…
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Grapevine Playlist: amiina, Atli Örvarsson, Brikcs & More!
It’s almost Christmas! Celebrate the end of Christmas music with this holiday feature. amiina – I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing Remember that Christmas soda commercial where all these hippies sang standing in lines while hawking a multi-billion dollar corporation?…
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Grapevine Playlist: KARÍTAS, Fortíð, Emmsjé Gauti & More!
When you get tired of blasting Radiohead and crying, check out these songs. KARÍTAS – The Girl That You Want Last year, KARÍTAS made us v sad with the release of her debut EP ‘Songs 4 Crying’. Now she’s here with an…
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Grapevine Playlist: Redwood Moon, Hugar, JFDR, Daði Freyr & More!
Happy Friday readers! Here’s your weekly dose of tunes. Sturle Dagsland – Kusanagi Honestly, it took me a while to work out if I enjoyed this song or not. I think I did… in the end. The colourful, children’s storybook-esque music video—which…
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Grapevine Playlist: Jelena Ciric, gugusar, boncyan & More!
Oh Friday, you’ve come at last. What does that mean? Your weekly dose of Grapevine-approved tunes. Jelena Ciric – Lines In the midst of all this worldwide chaos, turn to singer-songwriter Jelena Ciric to remember the sweetness of ordinary life. “I went…
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Grapevine Playlist: Ómland, Leyla Blue, Jose Luis Andervel & More!
It’s Halloween. You’re at home. It’s quiet. Change that with these Grapevine-approved tracks. Ómland – Skýjaborgir Ok, this is so cute. We’re smiling, squealing, rocking back and forth, and feeling our best folky feelings and then—OH MY GOSH! WHAT? Yes, you think…
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Grapevine Playlist: Auðn, Magnús Jóhann, Countess Malaise & More!
It’s October 23rd, 2020, and you have no idea what to listen to. Thankfully, the Grapevine is here for your weekend tracks. Countess Malaise – That Bitch “I’m too hard. I’m too bad. I’m too sad… but I’ve always been that bitch.”…
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Track By Track: ‘Phantom Plaza’ By RYBA
RYBA’s debut release ‘Phantom Plaza’ was a two-year effort that ended up with a seven person supergroup featuring Heimir Gestur Valdimarsson on guitar, Andri Eyjólfsson on samples, Baldur Hjörleifsson on bass, Elísabet Birta Sveinsdóttir on vocals, Kormákur Jarl Gunnarsson on MOOG synthisiser, Laufey Soffía…
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Grapevine Playlist: Jónsi, Sólstafir, The Post Performance Blues Band & More!
Stuck on what to listen to? Here are some of our favourite songs of the past month. Jónsi & Robyn – Salt Licorice “Salt Licorice” is an aggressive take on ballroom house, with a thumping beat contrasted by eerie vocals. In it,…
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Track By Track: ‘Patient’ By Birkir Blær
Birkir Blær is an up-and-comer from Akureyri who made waves with his R&B debut ‘Patient’, which dropped at the end of August. Here, he goes through the album, track by track. The album is not just a collection of songs put together…
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Track By Track: ‘Undir bláu tungli’ By Logi Pedro
Two years after his debut solo album, Logi Pedro is back with his second effort ‘Undir bláu tungli’ (‘Under The Blue Moon’.) We sat down with the artist to learn more about the release, track by track. Here’s what he had to…