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Release Date Friday 13th February 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
On his fifth studio album, ‘Julia, Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir
enters intriguing and uncharted territory. After years of engaging
translators such as John Grant and working with the poetry of his
father, Einar Georg Einarsson, Ásgeir has penned his lyrics by
himself for the first time in his long and celebrated career. The
result is a deeply contemplative body of work, steeped in nostalgia,
that sees Ásgeir meditating on his past regrets as well as his hopes
for the future, guided by the spectre of the album’s title character.
Ásgeir has long been lauded for his intricate folk-pop, lush production, and
wistful, emotive falsetto. ‘Julia’ marks a shift toward not just lyrical
self-reliance but cathartic directness, songs that feel not just exquisitely
performed, but lived in. “This was kind of the first time I was writing lyrics
totally on my own,” he shares. “It was scary. I’m still trying to find myself
within that. But I tried to open myself up and I learned a lot through that
process, and it was definitely therapeutic for me.”
This new sense of vulnerability threads through the album’s ten tracks,
written and recorded over the course of nearly two years. Many of the songs
were first composed on guitar, with Ásgeir aiming for simplicity, prioritising
melody, clarity, and meaning. The production, co-developed with longtime
collaborator Guðm. “Kiddi” Kristinn Jónsson, remains organic and
understated, allowing Ásgeir’s voice, and importantly his voice as a writer, to
come forward.
Tracklisting
Quiet Life
Against the
Current
Smoke
Ferris Wheel
Universe
Julia
Sugar Clouds
Stranger
In The Wee
Hours
Into the Sun
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