Iceland’s sonic exports have always erred towards the mind-bogglingly fantastic – from Sigur Rós to Björk and basically everything in between – and last year, Samaris showed no intent of bucking that ...

My discovery of this band has a very cool story. Sigtryggur Baldursson from the Icelandic Music Export office dropped by the basement last week with new music in tow. He just so happens to be one of ...

"Viltu Vitrast" is a minimalist, clarinet-driven bit of Scandinavian electronic music, performed by three teenagers who are each roughly the same age as Justin Bieber. In the song, Samaris retells a ...

These are busy times for Jófriður Ákadóttir. As has become the norm for the Icelandic songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Samaris band member, she is juggling different projects and joining up the ...

Photo by Magnús Elvar Jónsson. Produced by Alex Hodor-Lee. Back when Samaris frontwoman Jófríður Ákadóttir — Jóf for short — was five or so, she had a tiny keyboard. She wrote songs on it; her dad, a ...

Icelandic experimentalists Samaris are set to release a new album in May, play a string of shows in the coming months, and are premiering a new single called "Lífsins ólgudub" exclusively on Best Fit.

Iceland's Samaris make peace with all the Björk references. “I wasn't always like this,” says Jófríður Ákadóttir of Icelandic band Samaris. “For the last two years I've been going away, coming back, ...

The people of Iceland really know how to make you feel, and that's especially true in the case of the young group Samaris. To most of us, they're singing a melodic gibberish that vaguely resembles ...

Beware: this debut album by a trio of teenagers from Reykjavik features “lyrics culled from 19th century Icelandic poems”. But somehow Samaris avoid pretentious pitfalls. ‘Samaris’ is, in fact, a ...

The fact that Reykjavík trio Samaris sing 19th-century Icelandic poetry in their native tongue ought to be a barrier. Brilliantly though, the lack of a common language doesn’t stop you getting swept ...