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 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 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 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.
At some point 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 data, 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 inventive exploration in songs that really feel light, but dramatic – however eternally 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 identical time in order that they match effectively 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 document, it simply bought clearer and made extra sense to me what I used to be doing.”
To deliver 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 Prepare 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 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 shedding 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 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 feel I’m all the time altering and rising extra into my music.”
Margret candidly describes I Miss You, I Do as vibrant, sincere, and weak.
“I preferred the title; it’s easy, however significant to me,” she smiles. “I additionally just like the tune and the story behind it, which is about lacking somebody you like that’s far-off. I wrote that tune in perhaps 10 minutes the evening earlier than recording with Josh. I had just a few 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 stunning listening expertise.
The document opens with the title monitor – 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 up to now and I’m uninterested in 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 – each is directly 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 “Completely happy New Yr,” which closes the document in a state of dreamy bliss.
“My spotlight(s) from making the document 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 tune a capella – it completely freaked me out, however it labored out ultimately. Only a bunch of those little moments. I’m very happy with the work I did on this document; it was scary however rewarding.”
As for her favourite lyrics, she says, “I’ve lots – all of them, actually. I’m very happy with these songs and the lyrics, all of them imply lots to me. ‘Took the Practice ’til the Finish,’ ‘Completely happy 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 tune, and I really feel like I’ve a favorite line in each one among them. I actually can’t decide!”
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 tune 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 individuals really feel one thing or really feel extra deeply,” she shares. “Additionally, if it may assist individuals by stuff, that’s all that I hope my music will do. That’s what it did, for me, no less than.”
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I Miss You, I Do
“The tune was recorded with Josh Kaufman in Kingston, New York, this was truly a tune I wrote the evening earlier than I met him. I wished to have a superb tune 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 tune 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 tune”.
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. It is a very private tune to me. It’s concerning the good and the unhealthy, it’s about rising up and realizing who you’re. I labored with Andrew Berlin on this one. Steve Varney additionally performed a variety of devices on it which was so cool, I really like his work”.
Greyhound Station
“This one was recorded in Brad Prepare dinner’s studio in Raleigh, North Carolina, in his house 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 nearly 3 weeks of touring, we met up, and we simply talked a bit, after which we recorded the tune. I feel this was truly the primary tune we did. I wrote it whereas touring, perhaps every week earlier than the session. It was the primary tune 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 tune, 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 document. This tune 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 tune for her actually and a tune 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 document”.
Day Previous 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 instances after which it immediately got here collectively. This tune nearly didn’t make it to the document as a result of I didn’t like the unique lyrics. I then realized that the tune was truly fairly good so I tweaked all of the lyrics I didn´t like and stuck them. I’m very happy with this tune, it has a cool beat and a fuller sound. This tune says a variety of issues, it’s sincere.”
Perhaps I’ve Wasted My Time
“That is about overthinking stuff that’s already occurred which you can’t change, It’s about rising up and rethinking elements of our previous. It’s my ideas about every part and nothing. This one is perhaps one of many extra melancholic ones on the document. This tune could be very sincere to me, nearly 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 Prepare dinner. And I wrote it whereas I used to be visiting Denmark for a bit with my pal. It’s many issues in a single, however it’s type of a tragic tune. It’s about not being remembered or appreciated, however largely it’s concerning 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 Prepare dinner did some piano on this one and Brad did some cool synths. This tune 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 filled 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 pal. I like working with bizarre individuals 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 vibrant tune, nearly a love tune actually”
Born in Spring
“This tune is about loving somebody that doesn’t actually make you’re feeling like the most effective model of your self. Typically you will be nicer to individuals when there’s some house between you, that’s type of this tune. It’s not a bitter tune, it’s about taking wholesome house once 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.”
Completely happy New Yr
“Completely happy New Yr was recorded with Andrew Berlin in Gregory Alan Isakov’s studio in Colorado. I truly met him a tiny bit once we bought there which was so cool. He’s most likely my largest 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 most effective time of 12 months for me, I’ve all the time felt prefer it’s a tragic and darkish time and there are most likely much more individuals on the market that hook up with that. To me it’s not this tremendous melancholic or unhappy tune though the lyrics are that means a bit. Ultimately of the tune it goes to this repeating refrain which supplies a very totally different feeling. I’m very happy with this tune. 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 just a few various things.”
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