Photo by Magnús Elvar Jónsson. Produced by Alex Hodor-Lee. Back when Samaris frontwoman Jófríður Ákadóttir — Jóf for short — was five or so, she had a tiny keyboard. She wrote songs on it; her dad, a ...

Iceland's Samaris make peace with all the Björk references. “I wasn't always like this,” says Jófríður Ákadóttir of Icelandic band Samaris. “For the last two years I've been going away, coming back, ...

These are busy times for Jófriður Ákadóttir. As has become the norm for the Icelandic songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Samaris band member, she is juggling different projects and joining up the ...

"Viltu Vitrast" is a minimalist, clarinet-driven bit of Scandinavian electronic music, performed by three teenagers who are each roughly the same age as Justin Bieber. In the song, Samaris retells a ...

The fact that Reykjavík trio Samaris sing 19th-century Icelandic poetry in their native tongue ought to be a barrier. Brilliantly though, the lack of a common language doesn’t stop you getting swept ...

Samaris aren’t fucking about. Their new album Black Lights is a laser-guided anthology aimed at your soul. In many ways it’s the same Samaris we’ve come to know and love, but in many others it’s a ...