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"Arnalds makes it very easy for the audience to sink deep into their seats and simply drift away to the sound of these luscious soundscapes."
"In a live setting the pianos are an integral part of the performance due to their generative nature. Each time they are played is a little different, making every performance unique."
"I can see the crowd dancing and screaming, and hands up in the air — it's exhilarating for me."
A memorable evening in the company of a truly inspired artist.
Accompanied towards the end by guest vocalist from the new record For Now I Am Winter, Arnór Dan, whose soaring tenor sent chills up this reviewer’s spine, Arnalds finished off with arguably his most popular song, Ljósið, which was, as it turns out, written for a bathtub commercial.
"[When working for television] you can’t just do whatever you want because the music always has to fit within the frame of the show."
"Nevertheless, on most occasions Arnalds and band are able to surprise taking the audience through a myriad of different ideas and concepts."
Arnalds’ latest longplayer continues to work up hauntingly beautiful and dreamy atmospheres but this time around they exist in numbing subzero temperatures