In the Silence by Asgeir

In the Silence, which came out digitally on 28 October 2013, is Ásgeir's second album and his first sung entirely in English, though it's really his Icelandic debut Dýrð í dauðaþögn in a new coat. Same songs, same running order, but the words his father Einar Georg Einarsson wrote in Icelandic were translated or rewritten in English by John Grant, which gives the record a strange double life: intimate family poetry filtered through another songwriter's hand.

The music is folktronica at its most hushed, a soft voice drifting over acoustic textures and gentle electronic pulses, with "King and Cross" among the songs that found their way onto the radio. The album charted in Belgium and the Netherlands, and on the promo trail Ásgeir won the most praise for an acoustic take on Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box", which ended up in his live sets and on the deluxe edition.

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