The nine tracks move between opener (and first single) 'The Orchid's beautifully unfurling melodies and through the subtle percussions on 'Life Man', which propel the song upwards to soar like spring breezes. This renewal of purpose, in a world emerging from the pandemic, lends Museum a weightlessness and sense of movement, a lifting up, a reflection on what has passed, and an escape. Like breathing fresh strong air through your old self." It is, she says, "an album about clearing and healing. Just a short time later, JFDR had a reflective, hopeful, and immersive nine track album that had been conceived and composed with a whole new spate of energy. "I knew I had to write without over thinking anything, and work on it intensely." Almost instantly, she started writing and finishing songs and didn't stop. "I found a moment where something was happening," she says. However, she began to emerge from her creative stasis in late 2021, inspired by the discovery of ideas lost to time and demos of songs never finished while purging her computer of old files. It was a landmark album in her already decades-long career, and once it was finished JFDR began to experience a dissolving of inspiration. Museum was made in an intense and nurturing period she found at the other side of an existential crisis about her own work in the aftermath of the release of her previous album, the acclaimed New Dreams. "I'm always thinking about how you might capture the essence of a moment a thought process a feeling and a mood," she says, describing her songs as sculptures like thoughts and experiences captured in song and laid down on record, a concept reflected in the album's artwork, where she is photographed in austere black and white, statuesque in a garment designed by Sól Hansdóttir. Its nine tracks sculpt fleeting instants of experience into emotional objects, her voice a glowing aura in a mist of glittering gossamer synths and delicate instrumentation. This song feels really personal and I went to my home town in Ilo Ilo to film the music video.Icelandic experimental singer-songwriter Jófríður Ákadóttir aka JFDR's latest album Museum is a timeless monument to captured moments. We recorded the song with my guitarist and producer Jacob in his house and added in trumpets and strings. I’m in a really positive place for the first time in a long time and feeling love. For the first time this is just me being really happy. I usually write these songs that are sad, in the past with my writing even when it doesn’t sound sad looking back, the lyrics usually have been. A love song and the first one I’ve written "It’s a heartfelt song that means a lot to me. "“I wrote a lot of this song while on tour across Australia and Asia in the back of cars and traveling," she says.
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