ÁSGEIR
ECCO IL
NUOVO SINGOLO: “UNBOUND”
in premiere
su NPR.ORG
SECONDO
ALBUM IN ARRIVO!
“AFTERGLOW”
USCIRÀ IL 5
MAGGIO 2017 su One Little Indian / Audioglobe
‘A beautiful voice’ *** The Guardian ‘Album of the Week’
‘Ennobling’ The Observer ‘Album of the Week’
‘Evocative’ **** Mojo
‘A beautiful thing’ 8/10 Uncut
‘As a songwriter he has an outstanding way with a tune…the
potential to be the Adele of the North’ ***** Mail
on Sunday ‘Album of the Week’
Singer-songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist and collaborator; the mighty Ásgeir returns with brand new single 'Unbound', and announces his highly anticipated second album
'Afterglow'. ‘Unbound’ is a stunning, yearning piece of music –
surely a career-defining moment for the musician, who’s follow up to debut
album ‘In The Silence’ is greatly anticipated by fans worldwide. The
Icelandic artist has spent three years honing and perfecting the eleven tracks
that make up this magnificent and affecting body of work. Unplanned track and lead single from
the album ‘Unbound’ is a glittering menagerie of chirping electronic melodies
and stop-start beats that came about in a last minute studio session, evolving
from a singular, inspiring lyric: “Nothing holds me back now.”
Released on May 5th 2017 via One Little Indian, Afterglow
has all the confident hallmarks of an artist who’s now at home with his status
as one of music’s most exciting new voices. “I consider myself lucky to have
been able to go around the world with my friends to play,” he says. “Before
touring I had only been to Sweden and Denmark. Now I don’t even remember where
I have been or where I have not been.” That globe-trotting wisdom is keenly
felt on Afterglow, which ambitiously balances icy electronic shades of
Bon Iver, James Blake and Anohni with soul, R&B and even gospel influences
from different eras and places.
The album leaves behind the folk-tinged acoustics of 2014 debut album ‘In
The Silence’ and dives into melancholic electronica in its purest form. The
spell-binding artist has also once again collaborated with his father –
renowned poet Einar Georg Einarsson – for ‘Afterglow’, who is credited with
writing the lyrics for the entire album alongside long-time musical collaborators,
Ásgeir’s brother Thorsteinn, Julius
Robertsson & Hogni.
Talking about ‘Afterglow’, Ásgeir said:
"I feel like I have achieved plenty already with this album, gotten to
know myself better, feel like I’ve grown a lot. Not just because of the album,
but it has definitely helped."
Winner of the 2012 Album of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards, ‘In
The Silence’ sold so many copies that it is estimated one-tenth of the
population now owns that release. (BBC Radio 2 host, Dermot O'Leary, once
tested this theory out, calling a random number in the Icelandic phonebook –
the woman who answered not only owned a copy, but Ásgeir’s mother had taught
her son at school.) The ubiquity of the album (entitled Dýrð í dauðaþögn in Iceland) also
caught the attention of musician John
Grant, who immediately recognised Ásgeir's musical talent and ended up
translating the lyrics into English for the international version of the album.
The introverted
and humble artist couldn’t have predicted the immensity of his success off the
back of ‘In The Silence’ – coming from the Icelandic town of Laugarbakki,
populated by just 40 people. The same year, Ásgeir sold out two shows at Sydney
Opera House, one at Shepard’s Bush Empire and played a mesmerising show at
London’s Union Chapel, which sold out months in advance. The album became the fastest selling debut from a home
grown artist in Iceland, breaking all previous records and outselling Björk and Sigur
Ros by a long way. At just 20 years of age, Ásgeir had become an
overnight sensation.
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