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Ólafur Arnalds
Ólafur Arnalds is an Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. He mixes strings and piano with loops and beats, a sound ranging from ambient/electronic to atmospheric pop. He is also the former drummer for hardcore punk and metal bands Fighting Shit, Celestine, and others. In 2009, Ólafur also formed an experimental techno project, entitled Kiasmos, with Janus Rasmussen from the Icelandic electro-pop band Bloodgroup, announcing his electronic debut album in 2014. In 2013, Ólafur composed the score for the 2013 ITV series Broadchurch, for which he won the 2014 BAFTA TV Craft Award for Best Original Music. In 2020, Ólafur was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music, for his title theme to Apple TV+ series Defending Jacob. In 2021, he was nominated in two categories at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. "Loom" was nominated in the Best Dance/Electronic Recording category and "The Bottom Line" was nominated in the Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals category. Both songs appear on his fifth studio album Some Kind of Peace. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ólafur_Arnalds) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Songs

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Happiness Does Not Wait (2021 Version)
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So Far (feat. Arnór Dan)
Ólafur Arnalds
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Near Light
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Only The Winds
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Not Alone - Broadchurch (From "Broadchurch")
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Albums

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some kind of peace — piano reworks

Album • 2022
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Broadchurch - The Final Chapter (Music From The Original TV Series)

Album • 2017
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Loon

EP • 2015
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Surface (Music from the Original TV Series)

Album • 2022
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Island Songs

Album • 2016
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The Chopin Project

Album • 2015
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some kind of peace

Album • 2020
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Late Night Tales: Ólafur Arnalds

Album • 2016
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re:member

Album • 2018
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Trance Frendz

EP • 2016

Singles

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We Didn’t Know We Were Ready (feat. Niamh Regan & Ye Vagabonds)

2025
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It’s 2am and i’m not tired

2023
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Still / Sound — piano reworks

2022
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Forever Held

2024
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trying to think of nothing

2023
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We Contain Multitudes — piano reworks

2022
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improvisation

2024
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Hafursey (Yfir)

2023
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the world is finally quiet

2024
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and we’ll leave it there…

2023

Videos

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We Didn’t Know We Were Ready (feat. Niamh Regan & Ye Vagabonds) [Visualiser]

Ólafur Arnalds & Talos • 67K views
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Öldurót Island Songs IV (feat. Atli Örvarsson & SinfoniaNord)

Ólafur Arnalds • 654K views

Featured on

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Electronic Focus

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Electronic Dream

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Classical for Sleeping

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Classical Spring

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Late Night Classical

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Classical Meditation

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Classical for Autumn

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Symphonic Serenity

Playlist • YouTube Music
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sleep

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Evocative Instrumentals

Playlist • YouTube Music

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