Instead of opening with one of his tunes in his native tongue as he did this summer (he saved that for the second song), he started off with "Head in the Snow" - one of my personal favorites. His June concert at Black Cat sold out and was one of my favorites for the year. This was my second time seeing Ásgeir this year. Already a big thing in his native country of Iceland, Ásgeir is on his way to world domination with a relentless tour that is spanning the globe throughout 2014 & early 2015. Ásgeir - if you can pronounce his name correctly, you are already on your way to being a big fan of this soulful artist. He’s gone on to release a couple of music videos from the English version of the album, including ‘Torrent’ and ‘King and Cross’. He released an English translation of the album in late 2013, with assistance from the revered American singer-songwriter John Grant, one of Einarsson’s early champions. He took the Icelandic charts by storm in 2012 with his debut album, ‘Dýrð í dauðaþögn’, topping both the albums charts and singles charts - the latter with ‘Hvitir skor’ - for several weeks at a time. Einarsson played guitar in a band by the name of The Lovely Lion, but has found more success by standing on his own two feet.
In keeping with the likes of Bjork and Sigur Ros, who also hail from Einarsson’s homeland, his music - best described as a melodic form of folk - focuses primarily on subtlety, nuance and cleverness of construction his career only began in earnest in 2012, but he quickly made a name for himself as one of the most exciting prospective talents of his generation. Einarsson might not have been around for all that long, but there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that he’s the next in succession in a long line of intelligent and complex musicians to hail from Iceland.
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