This was another record I picked up on our recent trip to the Faroe Islands. While Týr haven’t released on the TUTL Records label since 2003, the retail shop still proudly carries albums by their metal countrymen. And there are a lot of Týr albums – Battle Ballads is their ninth full-length, plus they’ve got […]
Tag: Faroe Islands
Record Shopping – Faroe Islands Style
Tórshavn, the capital city of the Faroe Islands, is probably the remotest place I’ve ever been record shopping. I may have been to a store in a smaller town (estimated 2024 population – 14,099; the nation as a whole comes in at around 55,000), but considering how off-the-beaten-path it is, sitting in the Atlantic roughly […]
Kiasmos – “II” (2024)
Kiasmos are the duo Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen, and together they create some of the most subtly beautiful electronic music your ears will ever hear. Their first release was as part of a split 12″ with Rival Consoles way back in 2009 and they were fairly busy in the mid-2010s, putting out their debut […]