GDRN - "Vorið" from the 2020 album GDRN on Les Freres Stefson.

When GDRN (real name: Guðrún Ýr Eyfjörð Jóhannesdóttir) played KEXP Iceland Airwaves broadcast last year, she had just swept the Iceland Music Awards with her debut Hvað Ef, scoring best female artist, best pop song, best pop album, and music video of the year. With her follow-up full-length, released earlier this year, Jóhannesdóttir experiments with a new approach. As she told KEXP's Dusty Henry last year:

The next album is a bit more... It has more live instruments in it and more of me singing with more power. Just the lyrical ideas – they're all in Icelandic, I'm sorry for your English speaking listeners – but they are just fully formed ideas, I would say. They have this uptempo feel and a little bit more jazz, live instruments and everything.

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GDRN - "Vori&eth;" from the 2020 album GDRN on Les Freres Stefson.
When GDRN (real name: Gu&eth;r&uacute;n &Yacute;r Eyfj&ouml;r&eth; J&oacute;hannesd&oacute;ttir) played KEXP Iceland Airwaves broadcast<a href="https://www.kexp.org/read/2020/1/26/meet-iceland-rising-pop-star-gdrn-live-video-interview/"> last year</a>, she had just swept the Iceland Music Awards with her debut Hva&eth; Ef, scoring best female artist, best pop song, best pop album, and music video of the year. With her follow-up full-length, released earlier this year, J&oacute;hannesd&oacute;ttir experiments with a new approach. As she told KEXP's Dusty Henry last year:
The next album is a bit more... It has more live instruments in it and more of me singing with more power. Just the lyrical ideas &ndash; they're all in Icelandic, I'm sorry for your English speaking listeners &ndash; but they are just fully formed ideas, I would say. They have this uptempo feel and a little bit more jazz, live instruments and everything.
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