"The internet can be beautiful sometimes." Those words are on the opening screen for a new video by Ólafur Arnalds and Ella McRobb. A few weeks ago, they were a thousand miles apart and had never met.

Ólafur Arnalds' album some kind of peace is the most impactful record I've heard this year. The album, centered around Ólafur's melodic piano sounds, is packed with passion but generates an aura of ...

Enchanting Icelandic songsmith Ólafur Arnalds has been a favourite at DiS towers for a while but he's only gone and endeared himself to us even bloody more now! In an especially ambitious endeavour, ...

Amid a global pandemic that has put the world to a halt, Islandic composer Olafur Arnalds arrives with some kind of peace, his most ravishing work to date. Arnalds has always been a thoughtful artist ...

Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds has been described as a contemporary composer and synthesist, but that doesn't adequately reflect the alchemy of modern and traditional that he is able to blend on ...

Twenty-three-year-old Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds is not for the emotionally / romantically fragile, or maybe he is, depending on whether you like to indulge your sorrows or forget them. As on ...

Jon Hopkins and Ólafur Arnalds have joined the NASA payroll, composing a song, for the space agency’s new art installation, that will be sent to the moon on a NanoFiche disk. Composed by Hopkins with ...

At the tender age of 17, Ólafur Arnalds emerged on the music scene with compositions he wrote as intros and outros for the Antigone album by German metal band Heaven Shall Burn. When he was asked to ...

Jon Hopkins is having quite a year. He contributed to Charli XCX’s Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, and now here’s a song featuring string arrangements by Ólafur Arnalds that ...