Ásgeir had Iceland’s biggest selling debut album by a homegrown artist at just 20 years old, outselling Björk, Sigur Rós and Of Monsters & Men, winning 4 Icelandic Music Awards and a prestigious Nordic Music Prize nomination. No stranger to accolades, at 17 he also held his nation’s record for the longest javelin throw…
Recalling Bon Iver’s unworldly vocals and James Blake’s graceful electronic touch, for this record Ásgeir escaped into the Icelandic countryside to spend a winter writing, sometimes with his poet father Einar Georg Einarsson, and English translation help from American songwriter John Grant….It has more of what NPR called “a sweet spot between emotion and mystique” in his music.
