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Sóley Set To Release New album Endless Summer via Morr Music on 19th May

February 16, 2017

Sóley
Releases new album Endless Summer via Morr Music on 19 May (UK release date)
Listen to new single “Never Cry Moon” 
https://youtu.be/MldkxRy6BA8

Announces European Tour With UK Dates to follow

Back with her third solo album, Sóley’s new LP Endless Summer is due out on 19 May via Morr Music. Written over the period of a year together with her long-time friend and collaborator Albert Finnbogason, the new full-length sees the acclaimed Icelandic musician explore the more optimistic, sun-drenched corners of her songwriting.

She shares the first single “Never Cry Moon“, in which the orchestral sounds of clarinet, trombone and cello beautifully engulf Sóley’s repetitive piano playing giving the record a warm, colourful touch.
Sóley’s latest offering Endless Summer is the warmth beneath the snow at the end of winter, the seeds waiting to grow as spring whispers through. Following the heavy organs, synths, and minor keys of her last album Ask The Deep, Endless Summer emerges with a hopeful sweetness and feels even more vulnerable, as Sóley climbs with us to incandescence.
“The idea for the album came pretty randomly one night in beginning of January 2016 when I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote a note to myself: ‘Write about hope and spring’,” she says about the LP’s general direction. “So I painted my studio in yellow and purple, bought a grand piano, sat down and started playing, singing and writing.”
Endless Summer delivers just that, opening with the song “Úa” (named after her young daughter) that washes over us like a hopeful dream. It’s based on  adventurous acoustic arrangements reminiscent of Joanna Newsom or Agnes Obel, which sets the tone for what is to follow in its wake.
Comprised of eight songs, Endless Summer is grounded in fertile wisdom. Not just an ethereal dream of love and light, but a subtle, accumulative wisdom, a conscious choice to cling to vitality. Full of childlike wonder yet retaining a form of reverence, the album sees Sóley stepping out of a lingering nightmare to become an enchanted lover of mystery.
Endless Summer is like the Icelandic summer, a liminal, endless turning and shifting consciousness with an endless awakening of continual brightness with just a hint of winter; it is the eruption from which the rebirth of light emerges.
Soley
Endless Summer
19 May – Morr Music
Tracklisting:
01 Úa
02 Sing Wood To Silence 03 Inbetween
04 Never Cry Moon
05 Grow
06 Before Falling
07 Traveler
08 Endless Summer
European Tour Dates (UK shows to be announced soon):
Sun 26 Mar – Georgia – Tbilisi – Spacehall
Wed 29 Mar – France – Paris – Le Divan du Monde
Thu 30 Mar – France – Rouen – Le 106
Fri 31 Mar – France – Vendome – Le Troisième volume
Wed 10 May – Germany – Cologne – Kulturkirche
Thu 11 May – Germany – Leipzig – Felsenkeller
Fri 12 May – Germany – Berlin – Apostel Paulus Kirche
Sun 14 May – Germany – Frankfurt – Mousonturm
Tue 16 May – Czech Republic – Prague – Hybernia Theater
Thu 18 May – Poland – Poznan – Aula Artis
Fri 19 May – Poland – Warsaw – NIEBO
Sat 20 May – Poland – Katowice – Kino-Teatr Rialto
Tue 23 May – Hungary – Budapest – A38 Ship
Wed 24 May – Croatia – Zagreb – Culture Factory
Thu 25 May – Slovenia – Liubljana – Kino Siska
Sat 27 May – Austria – Linz – Posthof
Sun 28 May – Slovakia – Bratislava – A4
Mon 29 May – Austria – Vienna – WuK
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