Released September 2012 Artist Ásgeir Trausti Label Sena | Length 39:58 Release date 11 September 2012 | |
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Producer Guðmundur Kristinn Jónsson Indie folk albums In the Silence, My Head Is an Animal, Castaways and Cutouts, Beautiful Lies, Letters to Lost Loves | ||
D r dau a gn
Dýrð í dauðaþögn is the debut album by the Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir Trausti. The album was recorded in three or four months in the summer of 2012. Most of the original Icelandic lyrics were written by Ásgeir's father.
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The album reached number thirty-four in Denmark, and number one in Iceland where it has since been awarded triple platinum certification. It became the best selling debut album ever in Iceland. It is also reported to be owned by one in every ten people in Iceland.
As well as being nominated for the Best Album of the Year award at the 2012 Nordic Music Prize, the album won the Album of the Year at the 2012 Icelandic Music Awards and it received a Kraumur Award.
In the Silence, an English language version of the album, translated by the American musician John Grant, was released online on 28 October, 2013, and physically on January 27, 2014. Only the vocal part is different from Dýrð í dauðaþögn.
sgeir d r dau a gn lyric video
Track listing
All tracks written by Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson and Einar Georg Einarsson except where noted.
Personnel
Songs
1Hærra3:25
2Dýrð í dauðaþögn3:56
3Sumargestur3:51