Arsitoir

Not many bands can lay claim to the kind of dramatic career development that the Icelandic band Árstíðir has enjoyed. Formed in the wake of the 2008 stock market crash, they found themselves catapulted to the top of the Icelandic music charts within six months of their debut. Their latest album Hvel is a collection of songs which weave both traditional and electronically-inspired instrumental threads together with soaring vocal harmonies, and that critics have described as “beautiful and atmospheric” and “utterly mesmerizing”.