65 minutes, 37 seconds

Jóhann Jóhannsson
Virðulegu Forsetar

Oh, Iceland: You're so small and isolated, yet you make so much interesting music. This disc is from 2003. It's got a stately, elegiac sound built around horns and keyboard atmospherics. Hovering between ambient and orchestral, gentleness and surging, it's beautiful in a quiet, restrained way.

As you can see, I had to dig out an obscure HTML character code to reproduce the Icelandic letter in the title (it's apparently called an "eth"). However, I'm not sure what the title means. "Virðulegu" seems to mean "venerable," and the definition of "forsetar" is given as "president, chairperson." Your guess is as good as mine.

Also today:

65:36 Aghast View, Carcinopest
65:36 E-Craft, Forge the Steel
65:33 In the Nursery, Electric Edwardians
65:30 God Module, Artificial (CD 2 of 2)
65:30 Project Pitchfork, Daimonion
65:28 Retractor, No Resistance
65:27 Front Line Assembly, Implode
65:24 Accessory, Forever & Beyond (CD 1 of 2)
65:24 Collection d'Arnell-Andrea, Les Marronniers
65:24 Kreuzweg Ost, Iron Avantgarde
65:19 Conscientia Peccati, Culpa Somniorum