Olof Arnalds Announces Two CMJ Shows 10/21-22

Ólöf Arnalds announces two CMJ shows before she returns in November for a run of dates with Blonde Redhead, supporting her recently released LP on One Little Indian, Innundir skinni.

Ólöf Arnalds CMJ Shows
Oct 21 - Googies/Living Room at 10:30pm - Official CMJ Show
Oct 22 - Pianos at 4:20pm- Planetary Skewer Party

For two versions of English language track "Crazy Car" watch the official
"soft, dreamy" video via Stereogum and a live version of the track on BBC's The Strand.

NPR's All Things Considered
Drowned In Sound- 8 out of10
Guardian UK One Page Feature
Wall Street Journal- "Meet Icelands Other Songstress"
eMusic Spotlight
Venus- Four Stars
Time Out Chicago

International Press Falls for Ólöf Arnalds
NY Times:
"...her excellent second album, "Innundir Skinni"..."
Paste
"Innundir Skinni goes to otherworldly places with its dreamy melodies, from the rolling opener "Vinur Munn," which projects a flowing sense of movement and lyrical simplicity, to the plucky closer "Allti Guddi." The album's titular track, which translates to "Within Skin," is a reference to pregnancy, but it's also a manifesto of the album's purpose as an arbiter of overwhelming feeling bound up in a neatly-tied package of folk tunes-the emotional intensity lying under the surface rather than on the sleeve."

Spin- 8 out of 10
"Icelander Ólöf Arnalds performs mostly in her native tongue, creating a David Lynchian sense of disorientation, and her sweet trill sounds sped-up, even at leisurely tempos. But once you adjust to the lighter gravity, Innundir Skinni makes lovely sense."
MOJO Four Stars

"Olof Arnalds might well be Icelands next major musical export. She's the possessor of a singlular affecting voice, a less elfin Johanna Newsome by way of Kate Bush and her songs sung in both Icelandic and English, are as timeless and hook laden as they are delightfully idiosyncratic"

UNCUT Four Stars
"Arnalds has placed assorted guitar and violin with Mum and Mugison. but her solo work tends to be spartan, traditional-sounding Nordic troubadour songs- sung in English and Icelandic,--over plinky plonky accompaniment on assorted string instruments. Some sound like strange nursery rhymes (Jonathan), some like surreal Eurovision entries ("Vinur Minn"). All are very good indeed.
Q
The "Icelandic Vashti Bunyan"
"...what really matters here is texture, delivered in abundance as she plucks and picks her way around harps, guitars and all manner of acoustic backing, her celestial freak-folk voice bewitching the listener"

Brooklyn Vegan debuted title track "Innundir skinni."
Watch the video for "Innundir skinni" as debuted by Stereogum and grab the MP3!

Olöf visited the Time Out New York offices for a very special acoustic performance.
NPR featured Ólöf's "timeless folk and nursery rhymes" on All Things Considered.

Pitchfork debuted Ólöf's album track "Surrender," featuring Bjork,
as well as her cover of Arthur Russell's "Close My Eyes" -
a studio version of that cover is the B-side of the "Innundir skinni" 7" single.

TOUR DATES
Oct 15 - Wexner Center - Columbus, OH
Oct 16 - Christ Evangelical United Church - Louisville, KY
Oct 18 - Schubas - Chicago, IL
Nov 14 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
Nov 15 - Glass House - Pomona, CA
Nov 16 - The Music Box @ Fonda - LA, CA
Nov 19 - Warfield Theater - San Francisco, CA
Nov 20 - Roseland - Portland, OR
Nov 21 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC
Nov 24 - The Showbox at the Market - Seattle, WA
Nov 26 - The Depot - Salt Lake City, UT
Nov 27 - Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO
Nov 29 - Warehouse Live Studio - Houston, TX
Nov 30 - Granada Theater - Dallas, TX
Dec 1 - La Zona Rosa - Austin, TX

w/ Blonde Redhead

US press fell in love with Ólöf and Við og við
New York Times
"On Vid og Vid her voice is high and clear, with a gentle quaver that humanizes its otherworldly purity, and she accompanies it with only an instrument or two - picking a lute, a harp, an acoustic guitar - in melodies with the diatonic simplicity of folk songs. The songs are mostly about love, family and friends, and Ms. Arnalds puts them on the intimate scale of lullabies."

Rolling Stone
"Lovely, transcendent Icelandic singer-songwriter writes the kind of music that populates the dreams of angels - fluttering folk songs as fragile as tiny china swans."

Ólöf on MySpace
http://www.olofarnalds.com/

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