Een grote dame reeds in IJsland en stilaan mag ook de rest van de wereld volgen. Daarvoor trok ze richting New York City, North Carolina en Colorado. Om haar nieuwe album te producen trok ze o.a. kleppers als Josh Kaufman (The Grateful Dead, The War On Drugs, The National,...) aan. Bedoeling was vooral haar minimalistische folk een rijker geluid en meer karakter te geven. En of dat gelukt is! Vergelijk maar even de songs op haar debuut EP Intertwined en het daaropvolgende full album They Only Talk About The Weather met deze nieuwe single. Folk schuift een stukje meer richting americana dankzij de meer psychedelische klanken. Wat blijft zijn de ijzersterke liedjes en die wonderbaarlijke stem.
I Miss You, I Do verschijnt op 7 maart 2025 via One Little Independent Records
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Album opener and initial single ‘I Miss You, I Do’ was recorded with Kaufman in Kingston, New York and was written the night before Arny met him. “I wanted to have a good song to take with me, so I wrote it in my pyjamas in the Airbnb I was staying at before I went to sleep. I think it’s become the song I’m most fond of on the album”.
Arny Margret has supported the likes of Leif Vollebekk, Passenger, Wilco, Blake Mills, Ásgeir, and more, as well as playing the likes of SXSW, The Great Escape, Eurosonic, Newport Folk Festival, and Iceland Airwaves.
She was nominated for Newcomer of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards 2022 and won Best New Act at the Iceland Airwaves Plus Awards. In 2023 she was nominated for Song, Album, and Video of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards, winning Song of the Year. She was also nominated for Newcomer of the Year at the Icelandic People’s Choice Awards. In 2024, she was nominated for Eurosonic’s prestigious MME award, as one of ten emerging artists who reached audiences outside their own countries with their first internationally released album in the past year.
She’s performed a live KEXP session and been championed by the likes of The Guardian, The Evening Standard, The Independent, Rolling Stone, NME, The Line Of Best Fit, Clash Magazine, and many more.
