Whats This Playlist All About? For Interview Magazine, Australia-born, Iceland-based electronic producer Ben Frost (who composed the haunting score for the 2017 Netflix series Dark) compiled what he explains as "a selection of music made and/or performed by Icelandic women … some of whom I have had the privilege to collaborate with over the past 15 years, and they are all fucking brilliant." The name of the playlist, "dóttir," refers to an Icelandic patronymic added to female last names, meaning the "daughter of."What Do You Get?As expected from anything that comes out of such an otherworldly land, prepare for airy, ethereal sounds that seem to float outside any concrete sense of space or time. Elegiac operatics by Þuríður Pálsdóttir and Maria Markan serve as the bookends to a mix thats otherwise dominated by composers like Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir and Hildur Guðnadóttirrich, whose intricate layers of classical strings seem to hold every emotion at once. We get the feeling that all Icelanders are naturally gifted at creating spectacular film scores.Greatest Discovery: The angelic, minimalist electro-folk of JFDR, the project of Jófríður Ákadóttir, which ebbs and flows with delicate restraint.Will This Motivate You to Finally Book That Ticket to Iceland? Icelandic music—often slow, meticulous, icy, and enigmatic—feels as if its been channeled straight from Mother Nature herself. If you dig the vibe here, go there. Immediately.
