Faeroe Island singer & songwriter, Eivør, has shared her new single, “Hugsi Bert Um Teg” (Still Just You in English). Arriving with its own music video, directed by Einar Egils, it is taken from her upcoming album, Enn. This will be Eivør’s first full-length on the Season of Mist record label, and is scheduled for release on June 14th. Check out the new music and more below.
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“I usually spend a lot of time writing my songs,” Eivør says. “Months, sometimes even years.” But “Hugsi Bert Um Teg / Still Just You” is one of those songs that just came rushing out, as if it had been locked away somewhere inside of her, just waiting for the right key. Her new Prophet-5 synthesizer had hardly made it out of the box before she hammered out the songs lighter-than-air melody, which dances like the colors of the milky way. “When it finally arrived, I unwrapped it with all the restraint of a child at Christmas,” she says of her new studio toy.
Eivør comes from a village of 400 people, tucked away amidst the heavy winters and bright summers of the Faroe Islands. But over the past two decades, she’s covered a lot of stylistic ground. As a young teen, she played in rock and jazz bands. By the time she turned 17, she had already released her first album of folk songs and nabbed two Icelandic Music Awards. Fans around the world recognize Eivør for her thunderous Nordic drumming and operatic throat singing. But her upcoming twelfth album marks a bold new venture in her two decades-long musical journey.
As revealed by “Jarðartrá/Dust To Dust”, its gently pulsing first single, Enn delves deeper into Eivør’s affinity for dark electronic production. Even she was surprised to discover that her forays into electronic beatmaking were the stems for her new album. But “Hugsi Bert Um Teg” comes as the album’s biggest, most pleasant surprise.
“Hugsi Bert Um Teg / Still Just You” is the poppiest and most upbeat track on Enn. The gated drum loops and thumping four-on-the-floor beat would get the blood pumping inside any sweaty club basement. But even the pillowy synths can’t hide that underneath its sweet and simple melody, lies an undeniable tension. After all, it is a love song. When Eivør reaches into a trembling lower register, you can feel her yearning. Her passion lights up the video like a thousand suns, soaring above the clouds on the wings of her piercing falsetto.
“Regardless of what else is happening around you, even if the world is ending, a love song, dreaming of what once was and remembering love, this is the only thing on your mind.”
After independently releasing her music for many years, Enn marks Eivør’s debut for the metal label Season of Mist—and though her compositions sit outside of any one genre, she is happy to be embraced by the metal community. She identified a shared pagan sensibility in her television scores like The Last Kingdom. “I never felt I really fit into any box,” said Eivør. “I just have to do it my own way.” Recorded with her touring band in the Faroe Islands—where she now lives again, splitting time between her homeland and Denmark—Eivør called Enn “my most pleasurable and also most painful process. I felt that I was stepping into a place where I hadn’t been before, and that’s always scary because you don’t feel that you touch the ground. But it opens up your creativity and takes you to someplace new. It’s woven together all my experiences for the past 10 years, and it’s grounded me.”
Enn tracklisting:
01 Ein Klóta (5:44)
02 Jarðartrá (4:47)
03 Hugsi Bert Um Teg (3:25)
04 Purpurhjarta (4:27)
05 Enn (7:11)
06 Lívsandin (4:35)
07 Upp Úr Øskuni (5:01)
08 Gaia (5:10)
Total runtime: 40:25
Recording line-up
Eivør – Vocals, Guitars
Mattias Kapnas – Piano, Rhodes and Synths
Mikael Blak – Bass & Synths
Per I Højgaard Petersen – Drums & Soundscaping
Strings performed by Lýra:
1st violin – Sigrún Harðardóttir
2nd violin – Sigrún Kristbjörg Jónsdóttir
Viola – Karl James Pestka
Cello – Unnur Jónsdóttir
Choir on ‘Ein klóta’ – Eivør, Tróndur, Hans Mols Mortensen, Greta Svabo Beck and Fred Ruddick
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