An exquisitely beautiful, delicate and haunting track by the Icelandic artist on which she ponders the gaping hole in her stomach when she renounced Catholicism as a teenager, and heralding her upcoming new album Spíra (Sprout) out on 5 December via Bella Union. Religious or otherwise, the power of her lyrics describe in melancholy terms of “a world of commodities stripped of meaning and true spirituality. The purity of her voice and stripped back arrangement of sound is mesmerising, variously reminiscent of Joanna Newsom, Nico’s early solo albums, Vashti Bunyan, with a quality of voice her friend and sometimes collaborator Bjork described as “somewhere between a child and an old woman”.
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