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Album: Innundir Skinni

Released: Sep 14, 2010

Label: One Little Indian

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‘Ólöf Sings’ the new mini-album featuring cover versions of songs by Arthur Russell, Johnny Cash, Caetano Veloso, Bob Dylan, Gene Clark and Bruce Springsteen.

Out now!

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Videos

Ólöf & Klara Arnalds perform "Mr. Tambourine Man" live from the KEX Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves '11. Recorded by KEXP on October 11, 2011

Ólöf Arnalds and Davíð Þór Jónsson perform 3 songs for a Tiny Desk Concert in the NPR Music office in Washington, D.C. on October 20, 2010. Their set list included 'Innundir skinni', 'Surrender' and 'Crazy Car'.

Ólöf Arnalds performs 'Surrender' live in the KEXP studio in Seattle, Washington on November 22, 2010.

Ólöf Arnalds performs 'That Lucky Old Sun' and 'Í nýju húsi' on ABC Radio National's The Night Air Live in Sydney, Australia on January 17, 2011.

Ólöf performs Madrid for Le Cargo! in Caen, France on November 4, 2010

Ólöf Arnalds and Davíð Þór Jónsson cover Bob Dylan's She Belongs To Me for the Soundcloud Sessions in Berlin, Germany on September 22, 2010

Ólöf performs a cover of Arthur Russell's Close My Eyes in the attic of Iðnó in Reykjavik during May 2010

Ólöf Arnalds and Davíð Þór Jónsson perform Klara live on KEXP Radio in Seattle, Washington on September 10, 2009

Dig For Fire's short documentary made around the first show in which Ólöf performed Við og við in full

Eins og sagt er ( or "As they say” in English) was Ólöf Arnalds graduation project from the Icelandic Art Academy's music department, 2006

Releases

Ólöf Sings
2011

Digital | CD

Innundir Skinni
2010

Digital | CD | Vinyl

Surrender (Single)
2010

Digital | Vinyl

Innundir Skinni (Single)
2010

Digital | 7"

Crazy Car (Single)
2010

Digital | 7"

Við og Við
2009

Digital | CD

Biography

Ólöf Arnalds is an Icelandic singer and multi-instrumentalist. Classically educated on the violin, viola and self-taught on guitar and charango, Ólöf’s most distinctive asset is, nonetheless, her voice. A voice of instantly captivating, spring water chasteness possessed of a magical, otherworldly quality that is simultaneously innocent yet ancient (“somewhere between a child and an old woman” according to no less an authority than Björk).

While she has been favourably compared with the likes of Vashti Bunyan, Judee Sill and Kate Bush, Ólöf’s approach to making music remains highly individual: playful but intimate; accessible and uplifting, yet deeply personal and suffused with a timeless mystique that goes beyond the puckish inscrutability of her native tongue. Ólöf has also quickly proved herself as a magnetic, utterly self-assured stage performer, reliant as much on screwball humour, vaudevillian charm and even outright bawdiness, as much as the contrasting delicacy of her song delivery.