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Artist: Ólafur Arnalds
Suggested Track: Near Light

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Ólafur Arnalds
Icelandic musician, born November 3rd, 1986, whose work defines “architectural,” as bulky strings are built around skeletal frameworks of piano, sometimes with sparse electronic
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Ólafur Arnalds – Woven Song
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Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Nanna) – Particles
[Verse 1] / Here I am / Floating in emerald sea / Keep me dancing / Keep me as still as can be / And I try to keep the balance right / And I try, but it feels like wasted time / [
Ólafur Arnalds – Undone
‘Undone’ is the closing track of ‘some kind of peace’. The songs starts off with a voice excerpt from the late folk singer Lhasa de Sela, which is itself an outtake from a fragment
Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Arnór Dan) – For Now I Am Winter
For now I am winter / Lungs debut / For now I am winter / Lungs debut / For now I am winter / Lungs debut / For now I am winter / Lungs debut / For now I am winter / Lungs debut
Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Arnór Dan) – A Stutter
The sun is old on water / Yearling flakes keep whirling by / "Carry me, me awry" / Collapsing breaths discover / Turning hope, new-boarded highs / Receding howls dew the skies
Ólafur Arnalds – We Contain Multitudes
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Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Arnór Dan) – Reclaim
Arms were rivers through sinuous hills / Woe / Winds wore shivers and longing for thrills / Woe / Veil the night, wakeful stars blow dread astray / Dread astray / Veil the night
Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Arnór Dan) – Old Skin
“Old Skin” is Ólafur Arnalds' first release containing lyrics, sung by Icelandic vocalist Arnór Dan. This is also Arnalds' first video from his album, For Now I Am Winter, and his
Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Arnór Dan) – No. Other
Speak slowly, tongue of winter / Leak only strokes of bright moonlight / These streets I‘ve weaved with hunger / Repeatedly with white sheet eyes / Quiver through the nights
Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Bonobo) – Loom
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Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Arnór Dan) – So Close
“So Close” was written as the end credits song for the first series of the UK crime drama show Broadchurch, with its lyrics serving as cryptic clues to the identity of Danny
Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. JFDR) – Back to the Sky
Over the moon, under the stars / Feel them arresting me, unknowables / Fading at dawn, troubles too / Dimness sustains, oh, the regret / I could be lost to you, lost in thought
Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Atli Örvarsson & SinfoniaNord) – Öldurót
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Ólafur Arnalds – ​inconsist
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Ólafur Arnalds – Epilogue
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Ólafur Arnalds – ​momentary
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Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Arnór Dan) – Say My Name
[Chorus] / Say my name, say my name / Say my name, say my name / Say my name, say my name / Say my name, say my name / [Verse 1] / Any other day I would call / You would say "baby
Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Arnór Dan) – So Far
This is an Original Soundtrack from the second series of the UK television program Broadchurch.
Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Dagny Arnalds) – 1995
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Ólafur Arnalds – Spiral
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Ólafur Arnalds – Still / Sound
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Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. JOSIN) – The Bottom Line
Come on, come up / It's all or nothing / No warning / A one wake up / A one wake up / When you're called back / Open your eyes / Become or be lost / Suck it all up / The one last
Ólafur Arnalds – The Journey
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Ólafur Arnalds – New Grass
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RY X & Ólafur Arnalds – Colorblind
[Verse 1: RY X] / Through the night in the folds / Reach for me, carved in stone / Speak your name through the light / Bleed for me, colourblind / [Chorus: RY X & Ólafur Arnalds
Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Haukur Heiðar Hauksson) – A Hundred Reasons
I hate to see the shadows / From around your eyes / It takes me quite a while to smile / When all is said and done / Is this the end? / No, this is where we find / A hundred
Ólafur Arnalds – Við vorum smá...
I remember it well: / I asked you not to go / But all I heard / Was the screaming silence of the wind / And just like the wind / Will always blow through the leaves / I will always
RY X & Ólafur Arnalds – Oceans
Let it go / Free your mind / Let out hope / Be our wine / I know what I can hold on / Is healing so low / I'm bleeding our love / I can't leave this over / This feeling's over / I'
Ólafur Arnalds (Ft. Alice Sara Ott) – Reminiscence
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Ólafur Arnalds – ólafur arnalds on "reclaim"
Arms were rivers, through sinuous hills / "woe" / Winds wore shivers and longing for thrills / "woe" / Veil the night wakeful stars blow dread astray / Shake the dawn, aweless dare
Ólafur Arnalds – 20:17
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Ólafur Arnalds – ólafur arnalds on "old skin"
Where the woods would wear the wafting sounds of sea / Roves an oath, in search for something more to be / "Still hard for me" / Treading lightly, tightly shedding its old skin
Rhye (Ft. Ólafur Arnalds) – Patience
[Intro] / You're away / You're away / Ooh you're away / [Verse 1] / I'm lost and you're away / Singing songs about you, baby / Bring you back to me / I'm on my knees, hmm / [Chorus
Ólafur Arnalds & Ella McRobb – And we'll leave it there...
[Verse 1] / Settle down, don't say a word / It's all been said before / It's too late now / There's a weight upon my chest / That wasn't there before / It lives here now / [Pre-
Ólafur Arnalds – What Was Meant to Be
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Ólafur Arnalds & JFDR – The Bottom Line — piano reworks
Come on, come up / It's all or nothing / No warning / I wanna wake up / I wanna wake up / When you're called back / Open your eyes / Become or be lost / Suck it all up / The one
Sandrayati Fay (Ft. Ólafur Arnalds) – Vast
My love is not one that will lose its worth / My speed is like that one you knew when you lit / Up the sky / Up the sky / Your light is that of my sweet breath when weaving / I am
Ólafur Arnalds – I Felt Guilty
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Ólafur Arnalds – Beth's Theme
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ODESZA (Ft. Ólafur Arnalds) – Light of Day
[Chorus] / If I reach the light of day now / If I reach the light of day / If I reach the light of day now / On my way / If I reach the light of day now / If I reach the light of
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Genius Albums
Living Room Songs by Ólafur Arnalds
With Living Room Songs, Arnalds again released a week’s worth of songs one at a time, but this time he taped the recordings and put them on YouTube. Made in his Reykjavik apartment
For Now I Am Winter by Ólafur Arnalds
This may all sound grimmer than it is. For Now I am Winter is competent, reasonably varied, and efficiently rousing. Muhly effectuates some pleasing motion in the strings and winds
Island Songs by Ólafur Arnalds
“For the next 7 weeks, I will be traveling to 7 different locations in Iceland – one per week – to record and film a series of new compositions. In each location I will be
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Ólafur Arnalds - So Close (ft. Arnor Dan) Lyrics & Meanings
So Close (ft. Arnor Dan) Lyrics & Meanings: Through dark and light I fight to be / So close / Shadows and lies mask you from me / So close / Bathe my skin, the darkness within / So close / The war of our lives no one can win / / The missing piece I yearn to find / So close / Please clear the anguish from my mind / So close / But when the truth of you comes clear / So close / I wish my life had never come here / So close / / Through dark and light I fight to be / So close / Shadows and lies mask you from me
Ólafur Arnalds Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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Ólafur Arnalds - A Stutter Lyrics & Meanings
A Stutter Lyrics & Meanings: The sun is old on water / Yearling flakes keep whirling by / Carry me awry / / Collapsing breaths discover / Turning hope, new-boarded highs / Receding howls dew the skies / / Closing eyes recover / Amber light in wintry bed / Can you pull me under the cold, charred sea? / / Whispered words of summer / Fallen ode, a bawling bless, / Serenades the water and carries me anew. / / In softest air, a stutter / steers the heart away from the bane, / leaves the lasting sorrow and carries me anew. /
Ólafur Arnalds - So Far (ft. Arnor Dan) Lyrics & Meanings
So Far (ft. Arnor Dan) Lyrics & Meanings: So far from who I was / From who I love / From who I want to be / So far from all our dreams / From what love means / From you here next to me / / So far from seeing hope / I stand out here alone / Am I asking for too much? / So far from being free / A past that's haunting me / A future I just can't touch / And if you take my hand / Please pull me from the dark / And show me hope again / We'll run side by side / No secrets left to hide / Sheltered from the pain
Ólafur Arnalds - Reclaim (ft. Arnor Dan) Lyrics & Meanings
Reclaim (ft. Arnor Dan) Lyrics & Meanings: Arms were rivers, through sinuous hills, / woe / Winds wore shivers and longing for thrills / woe / / Veil the night wakeful stars blow dread astray. / / Shake the dawn, aweless dare / throw along youngest stare / Arms reclaim stars unnamed. / / Morning light reunites / fallen flames / a flawless frame / Through ember eyes / / Over night, hearts arise / All the same / a solace shame / through / / Veil the night, / Veil the night, wakeful stars / Reunite, arms reclaim / fallen flames.
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Q:Who wrote “This Place Was A Shelter” by Ólafur Arnalds?
“This Place Was A Shelter” by Ólafur Arnalds was written by Ólafur Arnalds.