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New ethereal post-rock super-band from Iceland Isafjørd, meaning literally fjord of ice, is a shining formation by Aðalbjörn Addi Tryggvason (Sólstafir) and Ragnar Zolberg (Sign/ex-Pain Of Salvation). The two together sculpt beautiful and desolate pop, as bright and dark as the sub-arctic seasons. Isafjørd is named after the town that both of their fathers came from - Ísafjörður.
Isafjørd's upcoming debut album entitled Hjartastjaki will hit the stores on the 2nd of December via Svart Records. It's an infectious rush of euphoric melancholy, quiet-loud dynamism, lush instrumentation and unforgettable atmospheric landscapes of song.
Meeting on the road, night creatures of the same renowned Reykjavik music scene, Ragnar playing live session bass for Sólstafir, Addi and Ragnar's musical paths finally intersect in Isafjørd with a sound that reaches like a stalactite from the past into a gleaming future. Holed up in the middle of winter, in an old house with a broken piano in the freezing cold, Hjartastjaki is an album of songs that were written straight from the heart, sometimes in a single.
Their chemistry as immediate as the climate they survive in, Isafjørd is a real meeting of spirits, with Ragnar's sleek and cherubim voice a brilliant counterpoint to Addi's dusty and aching cries, over orchestrated build-ups of soaring piano and sliding guitars. The catchy and haunting music that Addi and Ragnar create in Isafjørd is at once familiar in that lived-in, well-worn way a great song can touch your soul. Having both lived in Norway and speaking Norwegian, Addi and Ragnar speak the same language of the heart, as their Nordic melancholy makes for deep and mountainous music.
Isafjørd's songs are sincere icebergs of tundra-anthems that bring to mind Fields Of The Nephilim and Duran Duran jamming in a frozen valley, where the creative 80s new wave meets GodSpeed You Black Emperor. With influences that range from Cardigans, Beatles, early Judas Priest and Neil Young, Addi and Ragnar have struck a vein of gold that crystallizes their own heritage of wide-screen metal gloom into something new.
Now coming of age, matured into a shimmering diamond of Icelandic pop at its finest, Isafjørd is on another plain from Addi's own Sólstafir, where their cinematic metal roots have been re-traced into sweeping glacial song-craft. A country known for its honest and heart–wrenching emotional take on pop music with Björk and Sigur Rós, Isafjørd gives a new definition of "landscape music". When an album feels like a place you want to inhabit and experience, Hjartastjaki is a journey that you're going to want to take. Listen now to the beautiful first revealed song "Falin Skemmd" below. Link
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