Ásgeir

Ásgeir is one of Iceland’s most successful exports. His debut album, Dýrð í dauðaþögn, became the best-selling debut in Icelandic history, leading to the English-language version In the Silence in 2014. He continued to refine his sound with Afterglow in 2017, Bury the Moon in 2020 and Time on My Hands in 2022, earning praise from press and radio worldwide, including the likes of The Independent, MOJO, NME, The Line of Best Fit, Clash Magazine, BBC 6 Music and Radio X. 

In recent years, he also performed with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and recorded a live session for Arte TV in Berlin. He wrote a song for a Kafkaesque play that was hosted at the Reykjavik City Theatre called Sýslumaður Dauðans. 

On his fifth studio album Julia Ásgeir enters intriguing and uncharted territory. After years of engaging translators such as John Grant and working with the poetry of his father, Einar Georg Einarsson, Ásgeir has penned his lyrics by himself for the first time in his long and celebrated career. The result is a deeply contemplative body of work, steeped in nostalgia, that sees Ásgeir meditating on his past regrets as well as his hopes for the future, guided by the spectre of the album’s title character.