Geo Chandler's new single, “Spent,” arrived like an unexpected late-night espresso – jarring, yes, but with a curiously welcome clarity. It sets out to bottle that bone-deep weariness, the kind where your own thoughts echo a little too loudly in the cavern of your skull, a place where even the dust motes seem to sigh. https://open.spotify.com/track/3UZAFl31kun56K1VCEbmx7?si=67NnS83cSGqiwrfnsPF3xw Chandler, an Edinburgh architect of sound, builds this with a...

Alds Fjóla, a musician who has been polishing her talent since the age of sixteen, lives and works in the lovely village of Borgarfjörur eystra in East Iceland. She's been in the music industry for a while now, and after years of playing with different bands, she's now taking the plunge and going solo. Shadows (2020), the forthcoming first album from Alds Fjóla, brings a new...