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Ólöf Arnalds: Old-Fashionable Icelandic Songbird Finds a Timeless Tune

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 brooch...  read more

Ólöf Arnalds: Við og Við

Longtime Múm collaborator finds her singular voice on debut solo record The first time I saw Ólöf Arnalds perform was in the spring of 2007 at an indoor swimming pool in Bolungarvík (pop. 900), the most northerly village in Iceland’s Westfjords. The sound system fed her signal to special underwater speakers that transmitted at a frequency you could only hear fully if you were in the pool with ears submerged. Arnalds was perched cross-legged in a chair on the pool deck, wearing a modest one-piece bathing suit and rubber swim cap, cradling a small nylon-string acoustic in her lap. (Don't...  read more

Live Review: Ólöf Arnalds @ Lutheran Church of the Messiah 9/16

A prominent figure in her Scandinavian music scene or a number of years, the folk singer/songwriter, guitarist and charango player (and new mother to an 8-month-old son) Ólöf Arnalds took the stage on Tuesday evening at Greenpoint's Lutheran Church of the Messiah with openers Sam Amidon and Kría Brekkan to a crowd of wide-eyed Brooklyn fans. ...  read more