This week on All Songs Considered, hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton go on a haphazard musical journey across the globe to share their favorite new discoveries. Manchester's The 1975 start things off ...

Singer-songwriter Olof Arnalds has one of the most distinctive voices around — only in part because she's from Iceland and usually warbles her folk-flavored tunes in her native Nordic tongue, a ...

The island nation of Iceland has roughly the same land area asKentucky, but only some 320,000 inhabitants —- or a little morethan twice as many as Escondido. And when an Icelander becomes an ...

On Ólöf Arnalds’ stunning first two albums, 2010’s Vio og Vio and Innundir Skinni, the Icelandic trobairitz unfurled winding streams of childlike vocals in her native tongue. For her third, Sudden ...

Iceland Review: Your sound on that album is acoustic, folksy and quite unique. Is that a style you’re going to stick with? ÓA: When I was making and writing the songs I wasn’t thinking in styles. That ...

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