Icelandic indie people singer/songwriter Arny Margret takes us track-by-track by her soul-stirring sophomore album ‘I Miss You, I Do’ – an intimate, delicate, and boldly formidable endeavor that embraces a extra expansive sound with out sacrificing its uncooked, emotional core.
Stream: “I Miss You, I Do” – Arny Margret
Arny Margret has at all times had a manner of creating the huge really feel intimate.
Hailing from the distant Westfjords of Iceland, the singer/songwriter has steadily carved out an area for herself along with her uncooked, introspective lyricism and heat, delicate melodies. Her music brims with a quiet depth, mixing people sensibilities with a deep emotional resonance that lingers lengthy after the ultimate be aware fades. Following her 2022 debut they solely speak in regards to the climate, Margret returns with I Miss You, I Do, an achingly intimate and expressive album that expands her sonic panorama whereas staying true to the confessional storytelling that first endeared her to listeners.
In the future we’ll meet
like nothing ever occurred
Speak in regards to the bruises on our ft
And we’ll consider the time
we shared as soon as upon a time
Linking arms on the road
Oh, I miss you, I do
And I hope you do
Oh, I miss you, I do
And I do know you do
– “I Miss You, I Do,” Arny Margret
Launched March 7th through one little impartial information, I Miss You, I Do is each a continuation and a daring step ahead. With a richer, fuller sound formed by collaborations in each the U.S. and Iceland, Margret leans into people textures and layered instrumentation, capturing a way of development and creative exploration in songs that really feel mild, but dramatic – however without end tender at coronary heart. At its core, this album stays deeply private: A group of snapshots from the artist’s life, woven along with the identical honesty and vulnerability which have outlined her earlier work.
“It’s type of like a diary for me, tales and experiences from my life,” Margret tells Atwood Journal. “The songs are all written across the similar time in order that they match properly collectively. The one imaginative and prescient I had was to make the sound larger and extra folky. I feel it didn’t actually change all through recording the report, it simply received clearer and made extra sense to me what I used to be doing.”
To convey I Miss You, I Do to life, Margret stepped past the solitary confines of her early songwriting course of and into studios throughout the U.S., working carefully with acclaimed producers Brad Cook dinner (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, Hurray For The Riff Raff), Andrew Berlin (Gregory Alan Isakov, Rise In opposition to), and Josh Kaufman (Bonny Gentle Horseman, Bob Weir, The Maintain Regular). Every collaborator introduced a brand new dimension to her music, pushing her to discover fuller preparations and richer sonic textures whereas sustaining the stark intimacy on the core of her artistry. From recording in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Gregory Alan Isakov’s studio in Colorado, and Kaufman’s camp in Woodstock, New York, the album turned a mirrored image of each bodily and artistic motion – of Margret embracing change and leaning into a much bigger, extra expansive sound with out dropping the uncooked sincerity that defines her work.
“I feel it’s very me at this second in time, that additionally goes with my debut album they solely speak in regards to the climate,” she explains. “I’m prepared now for the larger sound and I need to discover extra. Again then, I used to be beginning out and had solely been making songs in my room. I used to be used to my songs being very uncooked, in order that was the best way for me to do it again then. I feel I’m at all times altering and rising extra into my music.”
Margret candidly describes I Miss You, I Do as shiny, trustworthy, and weak.
“I preferred the title; it’s easy, however significant to me,” she smiles. “I additionally just like the track and the story behind it, which is about lacking somebody you’re keen on that’s far-off. I wrote that track in possibly 10 minutes the night time earlier than recording with Josh. I had just a few concepts for album titles, however this one felt proper to me; it felt shiny and hopeful.”
From finish to finish, I Miss You, I Do proves a breathtakingly lovely listening expertise.
The report opens with the title observe – wherein Margret dwells in an area of blue, brooding nostalgia and unfiltered longing, burdened by the burden of a not-so-distant previous and the bittersweet ache of her current. “Twenty-three and a midlife disaster,” she sings softly over a heat blanket of acoustic and electrical sound. “Will you sing me to sleep? You’re thus far and I’m bored with calling, dreaming of the day we meet.” Her soul is uncovered; her voice is wealthy, tender, and hauntingly delicate, the feelings she places into each phrase as highly effective because the feelings she withholds.
Such is the case with all of I Miss You, I Do’s ten songs – every one is without delay a time capsule and a cathartic launch from the artist’s innermost depths. Standouts embrace the nice and cozy confessional “Crooked Enamel,” the sweetly stirring “I Love You,” the seductive, smile-inducing “You’re Mine, I’m Yours,” and the atmospheric and enchanting “Joyful New 12 months,” which closes the report in a state of dreamy bliss.
“My spotlight(s) from making the report was undoubtedly recording within the US, assembly and dealing with the entire producers that labored with me on this,” Margret says. “I bear in mind Brad crying once we listened to ‘Took the Practice ‘til the Finish’ after recording the entire day, that was undoubtedly a second that stays with me. One other one was when Josh made me attempt to begin a track a capella – it completely freaked me out, but it surely labored out in the long run. Only a bunch of those little moments. I’m very pleased with the work I did on this report; it was scary however rewarding.”
As for her favourite lyrics, she says, “I’ve quite a bit – all of them, actually. I’m very pleased with these songs and the lyrics, all of them imply quite a bit to me. ‘Took the Practice ’til the Finish,’ ‘Joyful New 12 months,’ and ‘Crooked Enamel,’ for instance, are very private to me – they’re trustworthy, uncooked, and melancholic. ‘I Love You’ and ‘I Miss You, I Do’ really feel very shiny to me. To me, there’s a feeling that comes with every track, and I really feel like I’ve a favorite line in each one in all them. I actually can’t choose!”
At its core, I Miss You, I Do is an album of self-discovery and emotional reckoning – one which finds Arny Margret embracing change whereas holding onto the deeply private, diaristic songwriting that has at all times been on the coronary heart of her artistry.
Every track is a second captured in time, a mirrored image of affection and longing, distance and connection, worry and development. Whether or not stripped down or layered with wealthy people textures, her music carries an simple sincerity, inviting listeners into her world with open arms. And if there’s one factor she hopes for, it’s that this album resonates, providing consolation, catharsis, or just an area to really feel.
“I simply hope it makes folks really feel one thing or really feel extra deeply,” she shares. “Additionally, if it could possibly assist folks by stuff, that’s all that I hope my music will do. That’s what it did, for me, a minimum of.”
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I Miss You, I Do
“The track was recorded with Josh Kaufman in Kingston, New York, this was really a track I wrote the night time earlier than I met him. I wished to have a great track to take with me, so I wrote it in my pyjamas within the Airbnb I used to be staying at earlier than I went to sleep. I feel that is the track I’m most keen on on the album. It’s totally different and it has this cool texture. It’s principally about being removed from somebody you’re keen on and lacking them and hoping that they miss you too. To me it’s a quite simple however significant track”.
Crooked Enamel
“It’s about feeling unnoticed and forgotten. Nevertheless it’s additionally about what makes me who I’m, I used to have crooked enamel and I’ve my mom’s eyes. It is a very private track to me. It’s in regards to the good and the unhealthy, it’s about rising up and realizing who you might be. I labored with Andrew Berlin on this one. Steve Varney additionally performed loads of devices on it which was so cool, I like his work”.
Greyhound Station
“This one was recorded in Brad Cook dinner’s studio in Raleigh, North Carolina, in his dwelling studio. I feel it was the primary session I did with a brand new producer, so I used to be type of scared about it. After virtually 3 weeks of touring, we met up, and we simply talked a bit, after which we recorded the track. I feel this was really the primary track we did. I wrote it whereas touring, possibly per week earlier than the session. It was the primary track I attempted with banjo, with a extra folky sound. Brad’s brother Phil performed the banjo and a few keys, which was very nice. It was actually totally different and thrilling to me to listen to my songs with these new devices. To me, it is a shiny track, moderately than a darkish one, which is why I prefer it, and that is one thing I used to be attempting to do extra with this report. This track was very impressed by the ‘American’ sound, which I like”.
I Love You
“I recorded this one in Iceland with Kiddi and a band. This one I wrote for my mother. I went to go to her after I hadn’t seen her for a very long time, I didn’t realise I missed her till I met her. It’s about her and her childhood dwelling, the farm she grew up on, it’s a track for her actually and a track I actually love. To me it seems like a letter to her, it feels very true and particular to me. This is likely one of the first songs I recorded for this report”.
Day Outdated Ideas
“This was recorded right here in Iceland final fall with Kiddi and the identical band that I recorded I Love You with. We tried just a few totally different variations with this one, practiced it just a few occasions after which it all of the sudden got here collectively. This track virtually didn’t make it to the report as a result of I didn’t like the unique lyrics. I then realized that the track was really fairly good so I tweaked all of the lyrics I didn´t like and glued them. I’m very pleased with this track, it has a cool beat and a fuller sound. This track says loads of issues, it’s trustworthy.”
Perhaps I’ve Wasted My Time
“That is about overthinking stuff that’s already occurred that you would be able to’t change, It’s about rising up and rethinking components of our previous. It’s my ideas about all the things and nothing. This one is possibly one of many extra melancholic ones on the report. This track may be very trustworthy to me, virtually like a diary entry. It’s all of the issues that I wouldn’t actually say out loud to anybody”.
Took the Practice ’til the Finish
“That is one other one with Brad Cook dinner. And I wrote it whereas I used to be visiting Denmark for a bit with my good friend. It’s many issues in a single, but it surely’s type of a tragic track. It’s about not being remembered or appreciated, however principally it’s in regards to the realization that, irrespective of how somebody may make you’re feeling, it doesn’t make you no matter they are saying about you. Phil Cook dinner did some piano on this one and Brad did some cool synths. This track is stuffed with feeling and vulnerability. When me and Brad had been listening again to what we had made he cried. It was a bizarre and particular second stuffed with emotions. That’s precisely what I need my music to do”.
You’re Mine, I’m Yours
“This was one other one with Josh in Kingston, New York. It’s like a pleasant letter to a good friend. I like working with bizarre folks with nice concepts, who don’t actually care about what the norm is, and Josh has this loopy thoughts, which was so cool, and very nice to work with. He’s all about how the music feels, which I’m too. It was so good to get to work on a few of these songs with him. It is a very shiny track, virtually a love track actually”
Born in Spring
“This track is about loving somebody that doesn’t actually make you’re feeling like the most effective model of your self. Generally you could be nicer to folks when there’s some house between you, that’s type of this track. It’s not a bitter track, it’s about taking wholesome house whenever you want it. It’s about realizing what you need and what you don’t need. This album is about making one thing new and determining who I’m and what I’m attempting to say.”
Joyful New 12 months
“Joyful New 12 months was recorded with Andrew Berlin in Gregory Alan Isakov’s studio in Colorado. I really met him a tiny bit once we received there which was so cool. He’s in all probability my greatest musical inspiration. So it was actually loopy to be recording in that studio. That is about Christmas and New 12 months. New 12 months’s Eve has by no means been the most effective time of yr for me, I’ve at all times felt prefer it’s a tragic and darkish time and there are in all probability much more folks on the market that hook up with that. To me it’s not this tremendous melancholic or unhappy track despite the fact that the lyrics are that manner a bit. Ultimately of the track it goes to this repeating refrain which provides a totally totally different feeling. I’m very pleased with this track. Steve Varney from Gregory’s band performed the banjo, which was actually cool. I really additionally did a little bit of drums on this one, so I’m doing just a few various things.”
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