Not yet 30, Jófríður Ákadóttir has been making music for half her life. At only 14, the Icelandic musician and producer was recording DIY folk duets in Garageband as part of Pascal Pinon alongside her twin sister. After finding acclaim setting 19th-century Icelandic poems to skewed synth-pop with Samaris, experimental impulses led her to form Gangly, a trio that shrouded her soaring vocals in dark, fractured beats.
A little of each of these projects can be heard in the music Ákadóttir now records as a solo artist under the moniker JFDR. After building skeletal compositions from piano, violin, and guitar, she clothes their bony frames in shimmering electronics, their rippling fabric lending colour and texture to songs that recall the glacial and austere landscapes of her homeland.
