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Ólöf Arnalds

With her soft, elfin delivery and skills as a multi-instrumentalist, Ólöf Arnalds has been a vital member of the Icelandic music and arts scene beyond her own indie folk albums. She evoked the troubadour era as well as a sprinkling of fairy dust on her first album, the acoustic Vid Og Vid (2007). Arnalds gradually expanded arrangements, adding more overdubs to 2010's Innundir Skinni, and including atmosopheric electric guitar, electronics, and percussion by her fourth album, 2014's Palme. After a spending a decade out of the spotlight, during which time she founded a cultural space in Reykajvik (Mengi) and raised her children, Arnalds returned in 2025 with the personal Spíra, her sparest album since her debut.Born in 1980, Arnalds began playing music at a young age and is fluent on violin, viola, cello, guitar, and a number of other stringed instruments, in addition to playing some piano and percussion. (She is the cousin of composer Ólafur Arnalds.) She became interested in international folk music early in her career, though she's performed with a wide variety of artists: she was a touring member of the Icelandic electronic ensemble Múm from 2003 until 2007 and has also played and recorded with Slowblow, Mugison, Nix Noltes, and Kitchen Motors. Arnalds first began to step out into the spotlight on her own as a key collaborator on Skúli Sverrisson's award-winning 2006 album, Seria; she wrote lyrics and sang lead on three of the album's selections, as well as playing guitar, viola, koto, and charango. After the success of Seria and receiving a degree in composition and new media from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts, Arnalds recorded her intimate, acoustic solo debut, Vid Og Vid, which was released by the respected independent label 12 Tónar in August of 2007. The album earned enthusiastic reviews both in Iceland and abroad, and Arnalds toured in support of the release in Europe and Canada. Arnalds' sophomore outing, the One Little Indian-issued Innundir Skinni, arrived in September 2010. While still delicate and mostly acoustic, it included some guests on vocals (including Björk), as well as instrumentalists including the album's producers, Davið Þór Jónsson (Blonde Redhead, Charlotte Diamond) and Vid Og Vid producer Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Rós), and Sverrisson, who was credited with artistic supervision. Released on One Little Indian in early 2013, Sudden Elevation further expanded her sound with help from Sverrisson, who played on the album and co-produced with Arnalds. Further growing her palette to include electronics and consistent full-band arrangements, September 2014's Palme was produced by Arnalds, Sverrisson, and Múm's Gunnar Örn Tynes.In the 11 years between Palme and Arnalds' next album, she founded Mengi, an artist-run cultural space in Reykajvik, worked as a copy editor, raised her son and step-daughter, and married Sverrisson, with whom she did the occasional musical collaboration. He was one of only three musicians (with Arnalds and Jónsson) to appear on November 2025's Spíra ("Sprout"), the songwriter's return to stripped-down, drum-less folk. Her debut for the Bella Union label, it touched on topics such as motherhood, friendship, and the long Icelandic winters.
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