Icelandic experimental singer-songwriter Jófríður Ákadóttir aka JFDR’s latest album Museum is a timeless monument to captured moments. Its nine tracks sculpt fleeting instants of experience into emotional objects, her voice a glowing aura in a mist of glittering gossamer synths and delicate instrumentation.
After the existential questions she’s overcome, JFDR’s Museum represents an essential step in her ever-growing catalogue and a new beginning for an artist who’s already had multiple careers as a musician, but who still feels she’s just getting started: “This album is a step to somewhere,” she says reflectively, “I feel I’m right in the middle of a new body of work.