After all, this is a band with a stand-up bassoon player. At home, they topped the charts covering a song by Icelandic disco star and Eurovision loser Páll Óskar. Unfortunately for Hjaltalín, a ...

"The video is a lovers conversion to a state where countless eyes stare at a heart that they'll need to share to quietly imitate what time has drained away," says Hjaltalín frontman Högni Egilsson ...

It’s June 2010 in a Reykjavik back street. Three members of Hjaltalín are trying to push-start a knackered-looking minibus. A small group of journalists stand gawping. We’re in Iceland to watch the ...

Resist the temptation to class this new Icelandic group under "glacially beautiful", alongside Sigur Rós. Though Hjaltalín manage the beautiful bit just fine, they are anything but glacial: the band ...

This eight-piece from Reykjavik are pretty big in Iceland, having topped the charts with their debut album Sleepdrunk Seasons. Combining strings, horns and bassoon, Hjaltalín create a mélange of ...

Icelandic seven-piece Hjaltalín have been around for almost a decade and their third long player Enter 4 won universal acclaim, with The Sunday Times hailing it as a masterpiece. -“I Feel You” is one ...

We are Ani & Cailin, founders of the barely one-year-old Bicephaly Pictures, and we’ve embarked on a wild journey to make our first feature film: Days of Gray. It’s a modern-day fantastical silent ...

Hjaltalín take it easy, with bandleader Högni Egilsson on the left Unfortunately for Hjaltalín, a significant part of the audience was intent on yacking throughout the show. Before the atmospheric ...