Ásgeir

Created Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson in the diminutive hamlet of Laugarbakki, Icelandic singer/songwriter Ásgeir specializes in romantic, soulful tracks that span indie digital and atmospheric folk. An over night achievement in his indigenous Iceland, where in fact the after that 21-year-old released his 2012 debut recording, Dýrð í Dauðaþögn, and quickly broke every local record in the publication (it’s approximated that almost 10 % from the Icelandic human population owns the recording), Ásgeir’s exclusive songs are created even more idiosyncratic by the actual fact that his 72-year-old dad, poet Einar Georg Einarsson, supplies the most the lyrics. In 2013, by using Iceland-based American vocalist/songwriter John Give, who helped to translate the lyrics, Asgeir released an British edition of Dýrð í Dauðaþögn (In the Silence) on the main one Small Indian label. It charted in a number of other countries, like the U.K. and Australia. While that recording featured a variety of classical guitar and wistful digital paths, the follow-up, 2017’s Afterglow, got on bolder, even more experimental digital textures.