Artist: Arstidir 

Title: Nivalis

Label: Season Of Mist

Cat #: SOM426D

Release Date: 2018

Duration: Album 

Format: CD
Case Type: Digipak

 

The eclectic independent Icelanders Árstíðir take an evolutionary quantum leap on the stunning masterpiece that us 'Nivalis'!

 

Árstíðir’s music defies genre borders and might best be described as classically influenced indie folk-rock. Whether in a train station in Germany, a concert hall in Russia or a bar at home in Reykjavík, theirs is music that mesmerizes audiences and creates a kind of intimacy leading critics to write, “[Hvel] is simply a stunning album, beautifully written and arranged, with a real magical quality to it,” and that live performances “may be the closest I’ve ever come to worship.” The band members’ wide range of musical backgrounds and experience, combined with professional interests ranging from law to literature and engineering to computers, make them unique in their wholly democratic approach to music-making and performance. Entwining the elements of sound with lyrics describing heartbreak, longing, memory and a deep connection to the circular oneness of life, they marry organic acoustic traditions and modern electronic arrangements with intricate simplicity and unpretentious skill. 

 

Recommended if you like: Solstafir, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Arnor Dan, Aranis, Utstøtt, Skrat, Dreamers Circus

 

Track List:

 

1. While This Way Lover

2. Please Help Me

3. Entangled

4. Like Snow

5. Thar Sem Enginn Fer00

6. Circus

7. Órói

8. Mute

9. Conviction

10. In The Wake Of You

11. Wasting Time

12. Passion