$20 Adv + Fees | 21+ JFDR is Jófríður Ákadóttir, a musician and film score composer from Iceland. JFDR's new album Museum is out now on Houndstooth. The new music has met with phenomenal and widespread support so far including from the likes of NPR, Pitchfork, La Blogothèque, Grapevine and The Line of Best Fit. Following stints as a member in Pascal Pinon and Samaris, JFDR has collaborated with renowned artists including Ólafur Arnalds, Damien Rice, and Penelope Trappes, scored the award-winning Icelandic film Backyard Village, and garnered fans across the world – including Björk, who has cited JFDR as an inspiration. Museum represents an essential step in her ever-growing catalog, and a new beginning for an artist who has already had multiple careers as a musician, but who still feels like she’s just getting started. “This album is a step to somewhere,” she says reflectively, “I feel I’m right in the middle of a new body of work.” Throughout Museum, there are beautifully unfurling melodies and subtle percussion propelling songs upwards. There are whorls of piano and synths, sympathetic textures alongside instrumental breathers. JFDR’s vocals curl like wisps of smoke around heavy and resonant silhouettes of electric guitar and bass. As the album moves, there is redemption to be found – Ákadóttir ushers the listener toward the light at the end of the tunnel. It is a masterful gesture from an artist 14 years and 12 records deep into her career. Park Hills Circle is the atmospheric indie project of Maris Maeve O'Tierney, a singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist currently based in Chicago. Debut album - All of a Sudden (forthcoming summer 2026 on Pravda Records) - features colorful stacked vocal harmonies, warm synths, ethereal fingerstyle guitar, and soaring saxophone. Maris has deep musical foundations in classical guitar and voice, and draws influence from her two homes of origin: the storytelling and lyricism of Ireland, and the open, mountain environment of Alaska. Park Hills Circle expands upon Maris' decade plus of leading cross-genre duo Maeve & Quinn with her violinist twin sister. Maeve & Quinn perform their songs, poetry in recitation, instrumental music, and storytelling in interdisciplinary performance programs — featured with the Poetry Foundation, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Maeve & Quinn have also premiered their orchestral compositions with the Chicago Composers Orchestra and Anchorage (Alaska) Symphony Orchestra. Their most recent LP, Another Door (2023), was featured in the Chicago Tribune, Earmilk, Bandcamp, and Under the Radar, among others.
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