"The internet can be beautiful sometimes." Those words are on the opening screen for a new video by Ólafur Arnalds and Ella McRobb. A few weeks ago, they were a thousand miles apart and had never met.

Enchanting Icelandic songsmith Ólafur Arnalds has been a favourite at DiS towers for a while but he's only gone and endeared himself to us even bloody more now! In an especially ambitious endeavour, ...

Ólafur Arnalds' album some kind of peace is the most impactful record I've heard this year. The album, centered around Ólafur's melodic piano sounds, is packed with passion but generates an aura of ...

Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds has been described as a contemporary composer and synthesist, but that doesn't adequately reflect the alchemy of modern and traditional that he is able to blend on ...

Jon Hopkins is having quite a year. He contributed to Charli XCX’s Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, and now here’s a song featuring string arrangements by Ólafur Arnalds that ...

At only 26, Icelandic composer and multi-instrumentalist Ólafur Arnalds has already proved his ambitions extend far beyond his native country’s larger-than-life landscapes. Thus far Arnalds has scored ...

2009 has already proved quite a year for iceland s neo-classical export lafur arnalds. still high on the success of his 7-song series ' found songs' recording a song a day for 7 days and instantly ...

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