Musical Musings

Við og Við by Icelandic singer Ólöf Arnalds is my current listen-to-on-repeat album. Given my obsession with appreciation for singers who sing in a Scandinavian language, I came across Miss Arnalds’ tunes while listening to Björk guest-DJ a set on NPR. Björk kept mentioning her fellow Icelander’s amazing sense of chord structure, and I think that “Náttsöngur” gets that point across pretty well. Her sense of melody too. And arrangement.