Icelandic indie people singer/songwriter Arny Margret takes us track-by-track by means of 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 all the time had a means 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 together 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 notice fades. Following her 2022 debut they solely speak concerning 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.
Sooner or later we’ll meet
like nothing ever occurred
Discuss concerning 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 by way of 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 progress and creative exploration in songs that really feel mild, but dramatic – however eternally tender at coronary heart. At its core, this album stays deeply private: A set of snapshots from the artist’s life, woven along with the identical honesty and vulnerability which have outlined her earlier work.
“It’s form 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 effectively collectively. The one imaginative and prescient I had was to make the sound greater and extra folky. I believe it didn’t actually change all through recording the file, it simply acquired 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 Mild 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 grew to become a mirrored image of each bodily and artistic motion – of Margret embracing change and leaning into an even bigger, extra expansive sound with out shedding the uncooked sincerity that defines her work.
“I believe it’s very me at this second in time, that additionally goes with my debut album they solely speak concerning the climate,” she explains. “I’m prepared now for the larger sound and I wish 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 way in which for me to do it again then. I believe I’m all the time altering and rising extra into my music.”
Margret candidly describes I Miss You, I Do as vibrant, sincere, and susceptible.
“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 like that’s far-off. I wrote that track in perhaps 10 minutes the night time earlier than recording with Josh. I had a couple of concepts for album titles, however this one felt proper to me; it felt vibrant and hopeful.”
From finish to finish, I Miss You, I Do proves a breathtakingly lovely listening expertise.
The file opens with the title monitor – during which 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 to date 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 embody 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 “Glad New Yr,” which closes the file in a state of dreamy bliss.
“My spotlight(s) from making the file was undoubtedly recording within the US, assembly and dealing with all the producers that labored with me on this,” Margret says. “I keep in mind Brad crying once we listened to ‘Took the Prepare ‘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 ultimately. Only a bunch of those little moments. I’m very happy with the work I did on this file; it was scary however rewarding.”
As for her favourite lyrics, she says, “I’ve loads – all of them, actually. I’m very happy with these songs and the lyrics, all of them imply loads to me. ‘Took the Prepare ’til the Finish,’ ‘Glad New Yr,’ and ‘Crooked Enamel,’ for instance, are very private to me – they’re sincere, uncooked, and melancholic. ‘I Love You’ and ‘I Miss You, I Do’ really feel very vibrant 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 every of 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 all the time 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, concern and progress. Whether or not stripped down or layered with wealthy people textures, her music carries an plain 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 may possibly assist folks by means of stuff, that’s all that I hope my music will do. That’s what it did, for me, at the very least.”
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I Miss You, I Do
“The track was recorded with Josh Kaufman in Kingston, New York, this was truly 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 believe that is the track I’m most keen on on the album. It’s totally different and it has this cool texture. It’s largely about being removed from somebody you like 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. But it surely’s additionally about what makes me who I’m, I used to have crooked tooth and I’ve my mom’s eyes. This can be a very private track to me. It’s concerning the good and the unhealthy, it’s about rising up and figuring out who you’re. I labored with Andrew Berlin on this one. Steve Varney additionally performed a whole lot of devices on it which was so cool, I really like his work”.
Greyhound Station
“This one was recorded in Brad Cook dinner’s studio in Raleigh, North Carolina, in his house studio. I believe it was the primary session I did with a brand new producer, so I used to be form 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 believe this was truly the primary track we did. I wrote it whereas touring, perhaps 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 vibrant track, moderately than a darkish one, which is why I prefer it, and that is one thing I used to be making an attempt to do extra with this file. 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 house, the farm she grew up on, it’s a track for her actually and a track I actually love. To me it appears 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 file”.
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 a couple of totally different variations with this one, practiced it a couple of occasions after which it all of the sudden got here collectively. This track virtually didn’t make it to the file as a result of I didn’t like the unique lyrics. I then realized that the track was truly fairly good so I tweaked all of the lyrics I didn´t like and glued them. I’m very happy with this track, it has a cool beat and a fuller sound. This track says a whole lot of issues, it’s sincere.”
Perhaps I’ve Wasted My Time
“That is about overthinking stuff that’s already occurred that you may’t change, It’s about rising up and rethinking components of our previous. It’s my ideas about every part and nothing. This one is perhaps one of many extra melancholic ones on the file. This track may be very sincere 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 Prepare ’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 buddy. It’s many issues in a single, but it surely’s form of a tragic track. It’s about not being remembered or appreciated, however largely it’s concerning the realization that, irrespective of how somebody may make you are 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 filled 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 buddy. 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. This can be a very vibrant track, virtually a love track actually”
Born in Spring
“This track is about loving somebody that doesn’t actually make you are feeling like the very best model of your self. Generally you might be nicer to folks when there’s some house between you, that’s form of this track. It’s not a bitter track, it’s about taking wholesome house once you want it. It’s about figuring out 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 making an attempt to say.”
Glad New Yr
“Glad New Yr was recorded with Andrew Berlin in Gregory Alan Isakov’s studio in Colorado. I truly met him a tiny bit once we acquired 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 Yr. New Yr’s Eve has by no means been the very best time of yr for me, I’ve all the time felt prefer it’s a tragic and darkish time and there are in all probability much more folks on the market that connect with that. To me it’s not this tremendous melancholic or unhappy track although the lyrics are that means a bit. In the long run of the track it goes to this repeating refrain which provides a very totally different feeling. I’m very happy with this track. Steve Varney from Gregory’s band performed the banjo, which was actually cool. I truly additionally did a little bit of drums on this one, so I’m doing a couple of various things.”
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