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Once you press play and listen just once the track melody will stick with you all day in a VERY good way. Can't lie to you about that! 👉🏽▶️👈🏽 · Soffía Björg - I Lie Album: Soffía Björg (Self Titled) 2017 (No Label - Self Release)

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Ear Buds :: 10 Songs We Love This Week :: 3.10.17

// EAR BUDS // 10 FAVORITE SONGS WEEK OF 3.10.17 //

featuring :: Colony House, Portugal. The Man, Amelia Curran, Alex the Astronaut, Alt J, Gizmo Varillas, Baula, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Muna & Soffia Bjorg.

HERE ARE THE 10 SONGS IN HEAVIEST ROTATION THIS WEEK AT VENTIPOP:

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Colony House :: "This Beautiful Life" :: @ColonyHouse :: New Album Only The Lonely out now

Just when we think Tennessee pop rock outfit Colony House couldn’t possibly get more prolific, they prove us wrong—but honestly, we expect no less from our beloved Colony House boys. With their latest album, Only The Lonely, they’ve set the bar even higher for themselves, and for every band in their orbit... (Source East of 8th)

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Portugal. The Man :: "Feel It Still" :: @portugaltheman

Portugal. The Man is an American rock band from Wasilla, Alaska. The group consists of John Gourley, Zach Carothers, and Kyle O'Quin. Gourley and Carothers met and began playing music together in Wasilla High School.

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Amelia Curran :: "Act of Human Kindness" :: @Amelia_Curran :: New Album Watershed Out Now

Amelia Curran is a Juno-Award winning songwriter, activist and mental health advocate from St. John’s, Newfoundland. Curran’s music is distinguished by her intricate and elliptical lyrics, geologic in their resilience and oceanic in their depths. Over the course of a decade, Curran has built a shoreline of song, a place of radical, perpetual collision of matter and form. Even as she leads us to the ever-eroding lip of the abyss, Curran’s music helps us make sense of the heart’s imperceptible, relentless attrition. (Source: Official Website)

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Alex The Astronaut :: "Already Home" :: @AtheAstronaut

They make Alex Lynn play soccer in the snow. “Outside on the astroturf,” she says. “When you run around, your tears and sweat freeze.”

The 21-year old from Sydney plays soccer in New York, on a scholarship at Long Island University. It’s there she studies Maths and Physics. It’s also there she’s been turning a streak of bold new life experiences into songs under the name, Alex the Astronaut.

Lynn writes folk-influenced pop tunes, slyly tailored to sound incidental. Anchored by wide-eyed, train-of-thought narratives laced with wry personal insights, Alex the Astronaut scans as both naive and worldly; off-the-cuff and honed. “And there’s billionaires for presidents / And parking fines at hospitals,” she sings on elegant opener, ‘Already Home’, as it unfurls from loping acoustic jam to grandiose string-laden groove. “I’m not the only one that knows / I brush the crumbs on off my clothes. And I hope, you’ll be already home.”

“I don’t know if it’s confidence,” says Lynn of her worldly achievements. “My parents say I have an obsessive personality, that I find things I want to do and just keep on trying to do them. I’ll learn the harmonica or piano or Spanish or something random and they’ll be like, ‘Yep, OK. Here she goes again.’” (Source: Official Website)

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Alt J :: "3WW" :: @alt_J :: New Album Relaxer out 6.2.17

Alternative indie rock trio Alt-J is back with new music after a three-year hiatus. The group’s latest single “3WW” launched to the top of the Billboard + Twitter Trending 140 chart Monday (March 6), hours after its release.

The Billboard + Twitter Trending 140 chart measures the real-time acceleration of conversation around artists and their music on Twitter.

The British group released the song on YouTube and other streaming services around 12 a.m. ET Monday morning and the track reached the top of the chart around 9 a.m. The official audio on YouTube has raked in 60,000 global views since its posting. (source: Billboard)

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Gizmo Varillas :: "No War" :: @GizmoVarillas :: Debut album el dorado out now

Born in Santander, Gizmo grew up in Bilbao and arrived in London by way of Cardiff, studying as an aspiring documentary maker. A lost summer busking for food and accommodation across southern France however lead him down a different path; one year later, Gizmo began receiving seals of approval from seasoned artists like La Yegros and Gavin James, who he went on to support on tours across the UK and Europe. (Source: Official Website)

“Working from his bedroom, the songwriter has pieced together a series of sunshine hymns, bizarrely contagious and wholly unique nuggets of summertime joy.” CLASH

“Hugely talented” Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

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Baula :: "Just Like Yesterday" :: Facebook

A Swedish/Icelandic duo based in Gothenburg, Sweden, made up of Karolina Thunberg and Ísak Ásgeirsson, Baula’s Scandinavian charm flourishes on Just Like Yesterday.

Following their previous release Don’t Bother, back in May of 2016, Just Like Yesterday sees the duo taking up a change of style as the piano lead work on Don’t Bother isn’t apparent on their latest offering. Utilising a more traditional indie rock sound, that’s DIY-esque, the combination of a riding bass tone that gives way to a leading crunchy guitar hook, which guides Just Like Yesterday along the path of groups such as Blood Red Shoes, Warpaint and Pins. (Source: Velvet)

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Hurray For The Riff Raff :: "The Navigator" :: @HFTRR :: New Album The Navigator out 3.10.17

Hurray for the Riff Raff is an American folk-blues and Americana band from New Orleans, Louisiana. Alynda Segarra was raised by her aunt Nereida in the Bronx where she developed an early appreciation for doo-wop and Motown. Read all about Hurray For The Riff Raff's new concept album over at The New York Times.

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Muna :: "Everything" :: @whereisMUNA :: New Album About u out now

I could be mistaken, but I believe Muna is the first artist we've featured on Ventipop for a third time. Needless to say, we really want you to give them a chance.

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Soffia Bjorg :: "Searching For You" :: @SoffiaBjorg :: New EP Soffia Bjorg, Pt. 2 out now

Icelandic songstress Soffía Björg hails from rural Borgarfjörður, a fjord just up north from the Reykjavik capital. The music of Soffía Björg is a satisfying combo of lulling ethereal beauty occasionally ravaged by roaring, aggressive emotionality.

The results are lived-in and dramatic, as the music draws from americana, folk and her undeniable roots described in the opening paragraph. Soffía’s deeply resounding voice enhances the proceedings, as it clearly stems from an old, wise soul – completely transcending her age. Like a raw Norah Jones, Soffia Björg envelopes the listener with a warm embrace but at the same time there’s trouble lurking just out of sight. (Source: Secret Solstice)

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3.10.17 MUSIC RELEASES

THE SHINS, SUNNY SWEENEY, HA HA TONKA, BUSH, CIRCA WAVES, AMELIA CURRAN, NATHAN FAKE, HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF, Cameron Avery, GREG GRAFFIN, MALLORY KNOX, David Bazan, Jay Som, Porter Ray, Shelby earl, sir Was, Talaboman, Thelma, LAURA MARLING & TENNIS

EAR BUDS :: 10 SONGS WE LOVE THIS WEEK :: 3.10.17~ FIN.

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Soffía Björg - Johnny

Soffía Björg – Johnny

I got suckered in by the warmth of the bass, then I stayed because everything else was just as beautiful. The latest sounds from Soffía Björg are some of the most intriguing I’ve come across as – by doing what seems like nothing at all – she’s able to draw out more emotion than even the weepiest of films.

It’s the tenderness of it all, the fact that everything is so delicately poised that even…

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Check out I, the first of three EPs to be released monthly by Icelandic songstress SOFFÍA BJÖRG, preceding the highly anticipated physical release of her debut album on the 13th of April.

I features four fantastic tracks which make us super excited for next month’s EP- both sultry and achingly open, I lays the foundation for what promises to be an astonishing debut.

II will be released on the 13th of February, with III following a month later. All three EPs, and the subsequent album, have been produced and mixed by our talented man Ben Hillier.

We love this excellent review of the EP on TooManyBlogs. Keep up to date with Soffia’s music on her website, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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Soffía Björg - The Road

Despite hailing from Iceland, the second single from Soffía Björg, The Road, sounds as if it had sprung out of the American heartland. A fog-enshrounded moor is an apt visual entree to it’s somber lyricism. A heady mix of blues, alt-country and folk, it’s must-listen for fans of Cowboy Junkies.

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Soffía Björg - The Road

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Soffía Björg premieres music video for debut single I Lie:

Icelandic up-and-coming songstress Soffía Björg has premiered the music video for the lead single from her upcoming debut studio album and, if this first single is anything to go by, we could have Iceland’s next big thing on our hands. 

Feistily delivered folk-and-roller I Lie is about “broken promises and sunken dreams”, and its accompanying MV (below) pays homage to The Beatles’ first Ed…

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Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi: An Iceland Airwaves ‘Secret’

This year’s Iceland Airwaves Music Festival was, as ever, an exciting, fully immersive experience across the city of Reykjavik. Hundreds of acts graced over 60 venues, turning everything from churches to clothing stores into buzzing hives of musical activity.

Thousands of wristband-clad music-lovers flocked to the official venues to witness performances from some of Iceland’s best-loved musicians, and a few out-of-towners too. Meanwhile the off-venue locations opened their doors to all, with more intimate performances happening throughout the long weekend.

With so many high-profile artists taking centre stage at Iceland Airwaves 2015, we wanted to dig a little deeper into the experience of a lesser-know festival performer and discover our own Iceland Airwaves ‘secret’.

Enter bass-player, Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi (Far right in above image). At 26, Ingibjörg has clocked up eight years of performances at Iceland Airwaves, and this year returns to play 16 on and off-venue gigs with four different bands.

We caught up with Ingibjörg at festival Founding Partner Icelandair’s off-venue, Slippbarinn, for a quick chat before she rushed off to another sound-check.

Hey Ingibjörg, we saw your performance here with Soffia Bjorg yesterday and now you’re back again with another band! Exactly how many gigs are you playing this year?

It’s going to be 16 in total, both on and off-venues with four different bands, so quite a busy festival!

You seem completely unfazed by it all though; I take it you’re not new to rocking the Airwaves stages?

I’ve been performing here every year, except one, since 2007. It’s always a really fun experience.

So you said you were here with four different bands, who are they?

The bands I’m playing with at the festival this year are Teitur Magnússon, Ylja, Soffía Björg and Justman.

Which one would you say is your main band?

They all are really, but I’m also in two other bands that aren’t playing Airwaves this year, they’re called Boogie Trouble and Babies. I’ve played the festival with them a couple of times before too.

I imagine you don’t get a lot of time to see other bands while you’re running from venue to venue, but who have you been most excited to see this year?

I have had very little time to see anything this year, but there are a lot of great Icelandic bands playing. Mr. Silla is one of my best friends so I love to see her shows. I also love Ariel Pink.

You must have had a lot of different experiences and types of performances at Airwaves, is there anything that stands out as a particular highlight?

Oh there’s just so many, it’s hard to choose! I love playing the off-venue shows because they’re so relaxed and it’s just a completely different atmosphere. I played at Kormákur & Skjöldur, which is a clothing store, yesterday, that was pretty cool.

What’s the main thing you take away from your Iceland Airwaves experiences?

The most important thing to remember is that it’s all really about having fun. It can be stressful the month beforehand, planning rehearsals and juggling the schedule, but when the festival gets going we all just have a really great time.

What’s next for you after Airwaves?

I’ll be heading to London with Ylja to play a few festivals, which I’m really looking forward to.

Ingibjörg Elsa Turchi plays bass on the latest albums from Soffía Björg and Ylja.

Early bird tickets for Airwaves 2016 are on sale now here: http://www.icelandair.com/icelandairwaves/. 

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Check out the new video for SOFFIA BJORG’s latest track The Road, which has been premiered this morning on Stereogum.

This is the second track Björg has released, taken from her forthcoming debut album, which has been produced and mixed by Ben Hillier. Already we can’t wait to hear the next track!

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Soffía Björg - I Lie

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Check out the video for SOFFÍA BJÖRG’s excellent new single I Lie, which is just oozing cool

The single, and Soffía’s forthcoming album, were produced and mixed by Ben Hillier- we can’t wait to hear what’s next from this entrancing artist!

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Take a listen to this awesome new single by SOFFÍA BJÖRG! 

I Lie is the first single to be released from Soffia’s forthcoming debut album, which was produced and mixed by Ben Hillier. 

The track’s been getting quite a lot of love, with Best Fit, Indie Shuffle, Stereoboard and The SoundBot all featuring the single recently. 

If the album is anything like this, we can’t wait to hear the rest!