With the finishing touches being put to Ólöf's second album, she has announded SXSW shows and her very first UK appearance with a low-key show at Café Oto on 15th April. Ólöf recently finished mixing her second album, "Innundir Skinni" at Sundlaugin Studios with Kjartan Sveinsson producing once again. "Innundir Sskinni" features more elaborate arrangements and instrumentation than Við og Við, with vocals sung both in English and Icelandic. "Innundir Skinni" will be released through One Little Indian in early summer 2010.
15 April - Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London
SXSW:
18 March - Driskill @ One Little Indian showcase - Austin, TX
20 March - Bootlegg BBQ (presented by MOJO & British Underground) @ the Mean Eyed Cat - Austin, TX
20 March - Yelp BBQ @ the Iron Gate Lounge (Ólöf will be onstage at midnight) - Austin, TX
Press for ÓLÖF ARNALDS:
"You may well fall in love with this album" 7/10 NME
"Reykjavik's answer to Kate Bush" ****Mojo
“Leaves a brilliantly deep impression” ****Metro
"More Vashti Bunyan than Björk, Arnalds flutes her way through Wicker Man-evoking ballads like "Klara" and mournful "Skaldborg" with a wholesome, unforced sweetness" ***Uncut
“On this evidence, the Icelandic ecomomy might be bankrupt, but it's talent bank certainly isn't” ***R2 (Rock’n’Reel)
"The kind of voice that can silence a room, such is its sweetness." Time Out New York, 9th November 2009
