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Palme Limited Vinyl LP

by Olof Arnalds

Release Date: 29 September 2014

Format: LP Vinyl

Label: One Little Indian

£15.99

Olof Arnalds Palme Limited Vinyl LP

Overview:
· Ólöf Arnalds returns with a brand new album, ‘Palme’, her
fourth, released via One Little Indian.
· ‘Palme’ represents Ólöf´s most collaborative effort to date and also perhaps her most profoundly sensual and
affecting. Musically, it offers up an astonishing wellspring
of fresh ideas and playful experimentation that move the
sound on from the acoustic approach that predominantly
defined her first three records, ‘Við og Við’ (2007),
‘Innundir Skinni’ (2009) and ‘Sudden Elevation’ (2013).
· On ‘Palme’ Ólöf is sensitively backed by two trusted
collaborators and friends; Gunnar Örn Tynes (founder of
electro-folk collective múm) and once again, long-term
musical foil Skúli Sverrisson (who has also worked with
luminaries Laurie Anderson, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Blonde
Redhead).
· The constant here, of course, is Ólöf’s effortlessly
distinctive vocal. A voice “that can silence a room, such is
its sweetness,” as a bowled over Time Out NY once opined. Here on ‘Palme’ it has never been so poignant nor powerfully intoxicating.
· “Extraordinary voice, at once lilting and weighted with
emotion… The drama here is all in Arnalds’ delivery, which
would be remarkable even if she were singing from the Yellow Pages” - Q
· “Innocently nostalgic and powerfully feminine” - Uncut

Featured Tracks:
1. Turtledove
2. Defining Gender
3. Hypnose
4. Palme
5. Patience
6. Half Steady
7. Han Grete
8. Soft Living