"Surrender" is a hushed acoustic song featured on Icelandic folk songstress Ólöf Arnalds' forthcoming sophomore album, Innundir Skinni (translation: Under the Skin). Oh yeah, Björk is on it, too. She ...

Ólöf Arnalds is a classically trained Icelandic singer/songwriter and multi-talented instrumentalist who has been active within the Icelandic music scene for quite some time. Apart from her own music ...

As far as Iceland’s pop exports, the main name music fans know is singer Bjork — but a new artist is emerging, due in part to Bjork’s support. Olof Arnalds can best be described as a folk singer — her ...

The Fear of 13 Doesn’t Get Far Outside of Adrien Brody’s Head Lindsey Ferrentino’s play about the exonerated death-row inmate Nick Yarris doesn’t ever become larger than his story, compelling as that ...

Ólöf Arnalds announces two CMJ shows before she returns in November for a run of dates with Blonde Redhead, supporting her recently released LP on One Little Indian, Innundir skinni. "Innundir Skinni ...

Bjork & Dirty Projectors @ Housing Works (more by Chris La Putt) Ólöf Arnalds [who also played that Housing Works benefit with Bjork and Dirty Projectors] was recently featured in NPR’s All Things ...

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Folksinger Ólöf Arnalds is perched in a back room of Sandholt Bakery, a sleepy café located along Reykjavík’s busiest shopping street, wearing traffic-stopping pink lipstick and a sparkly butterfly ...

Singer-songwriter Olof Arnalds has one of the most distinctive voices around — only in part because she's from Iceland and usually warbles her folk-flavored tunes in her native Nordic tongue, a ...

In the frigid North Atlantic Ocean between Norway and Greenland lies Iceland, an island nation of only about 300,000 souls. Two-thirds of Icelanders live in and around the capital city of Reykjavik, ...