Few outfits nowadays can stake a claim on a brand of music that's all their own; Samaris can however, with their clarinet-led electronic post-dance (we probably need a more concise term). The trio, ...

Iceland’s sonic exports have always erred towards the mind-bogglingly fantastic – from Sigur Rós to Björk and basically everything in between – and last year, Samaris showed no intent of bucking that ...

Samaris, the young, Icelandic, dreamy, electronic trio are certainly all those things. But while they do those things well, the result is not particularly special. In a half-full Spiegeltent on ...

Photo by Magnús Elvar Jónsson. Produced by Alex Hodor-Lee. Back when Samaris frontwoman Jófríður Ákadóttir — Jóf for short — was five or so, she had a tiny keyboard. She wrote songs on it; her dad, a ...

Iceland's Samaris make peace with all the Björk references. “I wasn't always like this,” says Jófríður Ákadóttir of Icelandic band Samaris. “For the last two years I've been going away, coming back, ...

My discovery of this band has a very cool story. Sigtryggur Baldursson from the Icelandic Music Export office dropped by the basement last week with new music in tow. He just so happens to be one of ...

Over a year ago, the Reykjavík trio Samaris was cited by NPR Music as representing the "sound of young Iceland" — likely younger than most since all three members were still teenagers, just under 20.

Beware: this debut album by a trio of teenagers from Reykjavik features “lyrics culled from 19th century Icelandic poems”. But somehow Samaris avoid pretentious pitfalls. ‘Samaris’ is, in fact, a ...