

I first heard Heyr himna smiður, a popular Icelandic hymn, being sung by Árstíðir in a train station via their Youtube video, and I highly recommend that you look it up! This kind of music is haunting, otherworldly, time-pausing for me. It is also one of the few pieces that I had to own the sheet music for, and I paid the Iceland Music Information Centre for it with my hard-earned college part-time job money. I feel warm just thinking about that :)