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Olof Arnalds on This Sudden Elevation into English folk. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: album , arnalds , download , leak , new , olof , review , single

Olof Persson stays busy. As a member of Malmö-based duo Broken Boys, he makes dark pop that mixes 808 beats with layers of analog synth, while his solo project, Heat and White, employs similar elements for wordless but no less affecting compositions (when he's not making mixes for us , that is).  "Sleep Now," is the latest from the latter project, and plays out like a giallo movie that's as concerned with subconscious terrors as it is slasher scares. It's all slinky narrative with no outlet (at least at first), driven by arpeggiated synths that culminate with an ominous [...]

• Heat and White - Sleep Now (zeon light 030)

Enjoy 'Solitary Man' via SoundCloud. Olof Sings will see daylight shortly. Purchase Olof Arnalds items via Insound. MP3: Olof Arnalds - Vid Og Vid

Olof Arnalds @ SXSW 2010 ( more by Dominick Mastrangelo ) Ólöf Arnalds is releasing a new mini-album of covers called "Ólöf Sings" on 11/8. On it you'll find covers of songs by Arthur Russell, Johnny Cash, Caetano Veloso, Bob Dylan, Gene Clark and Bruce Springsteen. Maybe she'll bust out one of those covers at one of her upcoming shows including the one Saturday night, 10/29, at Town Hall where she opens for Jeff Mangum ! She doesn't [...]

Enjoy "With Tomorrow" & "I'm On Fire" via SoundCloud. Olof Sings will see daylight shortly. Olof Arnalds recently dropped by KEXP. Purchase Olof Arnalds items via Insound. MP3: Olof Arnalds - Vid Og Vid

Watch 'Mr. Tambourine Man' below. Olof Sings will see daylight very shortly. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Olof Arnalds - Vid Og Vid

Olof Sings will see daylight on 11/8 via One Little Indian. It features: Close My Eyes With Tomorrow/I’m On Fire Solitary Man She Belongs To Me Maria Bethania Olof Arnalds recently dropped by Daytrotter. Purchase Olof Arnalds items via Insound. MP3: Olof Arnalds - Vid Og Vid

Swedish dream-popsters Korallreven dropped a succint awesome 25 minute mix (below) yesterday to promote their upcoming debut An Album By Korallreven on Acephale Records. It's the third in the duo's trilogy of remixes and it contains three edits in particular that take it beyond a regular mixtape. Thankfully each track on the mix is available for free download and in particular, the remixes of Olof of The Knife's side project Oni Ayhun , Ciara's 'Deuces' (last heard remixed by Nguzunguzu ) and the big echoey rework of [...]

Swedish dream-popsters Korallreven dropped a succint awesome 25 minute mix (below) yesterday to promote their upcoming debut An Album By Korallreven on Acephale Records. It's the third in the duo's trilogy of remixes and it contains three edits in particular that take it beyond a regular mixtape. Thankfully each track on the mix is available for free download and in particular, the remixes of Olof of The Knife's side project Oni Ayhun , Ciara's 'Deuces' (last heard remixed by Nguzunguzu ) and the big echoey rework of [...]

• Britney Spears - Till The World Ends (Korallreven Version)
• Ciara - Deuces (Korallreven Version)
• Oni Ayhun - OAR003B (Korallreven Version)
• The FADER - Korallreven's A Dream Within A Dream Mix

I really just fall in love with anything and anyone from Iceland. How is it that such a place makes so much amazingness. Olof Arnalds is no exception. Her latest release Innundir Skinni is as haunting as it is endearing. To say that she sweeps you away is to understate the calmly entrancing woo of her genuineness. Her dovelike and fragile songwriting creates a thatched wall of sincerity that you break through, or even dare to climb, yet it seeps into you like carful roots. She's currently on the road in North America, including dates in [...]

A long weekend ate the first half of This Week's Menu . But thankfully, as always, there are too many shows to choose from this week. What's on our plate tonight? The Ocean Floor , with their slightly off-kilter (in the vein of Destroyer), charmingly folky tunes will open for captivating Icelandic songstress Olof Arnalds at The Woods. Along with Jordan O' Jordan, this one promises to be a night of fantastically folky goodness. - mh the ocean [...]

The Georgia Straight profiles singer-songwriter Olof Arnalds. Arnalds breaks with that tradition on Innundir skinni , a sophomore album that finds her working with two producers (David Por Jonsson and Sigur Ros’s Kjartan Sveinsson) and a small symphony of backing musicians. The collaboration produced one of the critically adored albums you probably never heard in 2010, its songs striking an improbable balance between dramatic chamber pop and stripped-to-the-bone folk. What's cool is that this dichotomy is often explored within the same song; witness the way that "Vinur Minn" starts out with nothing [...]

Tweet To enter any contest submit an email to contest[at]thebaybridged.com with your full name in the body and the concert you’re entering the contest for in the subject line. You may only submit your name to one contest. Winners for each show will be decided using the guidelines listed below. Friday, April 8th (((folkYEAH!))) Presents: Akron/Family, Delicate Steve, Honeymoon @ The Independent To win a pair of tickets to the [...]

photos by Timothy Griffin Evan Voytas Lady Lamb the Beekeeper "When you've got a demure woman on the microphone and she can go from a soulful refrain to a heightened howl in the matter of a minute, you know you're in the presence of someone special. I don't know if "special" quite cuts it when it comes to describing Aly Spaltro, aka Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, but she was the definition [...]

photos by Amanda Hatfield ""I write from a painful place," [ Sharon Van Etten ] recently told SPIN of the inspiration behind her latest release, the seven-song EP Epic . You can say that again. At the Swan Dive venue, just past midnight, Etten played a mournful solo electric ditty, reminiscent early Cat Power, and while her lyrics were largely undistinguishable, the track's title unidentifiable, it didn't matter -- the song gushed emotional ache like blood from an open wound. Words [...]

As half the internet impatiently awaits the last musical offspring from Sweden's most instrumentally fertile, Fever Ray, compatriots Niki & The Dove are worthy of more than a minute of your time. Mysterious, eerie and ethereal, Niki & The Dove recall the murky synth swathes of The Knife's seminal Silent Shout long player, tweaking the Dreijer Anderssons' musical pessimism with rejoicing triumph. Theatrical, operatic and devastatingly engaging, their bleak soundscapes are equally as expansive as desolate Stockholm suburbs. Sign up to their mailing list here for a free download of the underpass funk slump of Winterheart , [...]

Following in the footsteps of Dots & Dashes supreme muso shape shifter Damon Albarn, masked maestros The Knife mark next week (1st March) with their first entrance into the stages, shrieks and sounds of opera lirica and librettos. Much has been made of Karin Dreijer Andersson's return to her now-fairly incongruous day job as one half of Sweden's premium Venetian-masked disturbed electro maestros and Tomorrow, In A Year is a bold stab into the darkness of the unknown, particularly for such vehemently shy and retiring siblings (until 2006 they'd never dared to venture out into the sweat-inducing spotlights [...]

Ar•du•ous per•fec•tion 'Colouring of Pigeons'

This is the video for the first single "Caught in a Riot" of Anderas Tilliander 's new album Show . The video was shot during one day with a Nikon D90 directed by Olof Werngren : SUPPORT: MYSPACE