Tag: Hjaltalin

Every year, the week after Iceland Airwaves is full of the obvious great memories, the impossibility of getting that song out of my head (this year – Sin Fang's "Walk With You") and impatience to do it all over again a year on, but it is also full of regrets. Come on, there were something […]

This list was compiled with votes from 64 voters, almost exclusively from outside of Iceland. 29 different records got some love, and still nobody nodded in the direction of Björk's remix album. Like I said last year, Iceland is truly full of wonderful music-makers and some lovely fans too. Here's our best of 2012 list […]

Hjaltalín appear to be on the rise. In fact they seem to have had upwards momentum ever since I first came across them. Most commonly described (and well described) as chamber pop, they're certainly not running away from the tag, playing with orchestras of varying sizes over the last 18 months and refining their sound […]