With the album ”Floating harmonies” (2016) showed the icelandic Júníus Meyvant, or Indulge Gísli Sigurmundsson as he is really called, that he could write storvulen storbandssoul and pop with organic harmonies, which flirted with the american 60-talssoul. On the new album is the soul more of a starting point, something to embrace to – as the title also suggests. If anything is central in the ”Across the borders”, it is precisely the crossing of the border, and the delicate orchestration that comes with it.
often in one and the same song, as if each track on the disc, just got the costume that it fits best in. Hot västkustpop, folk, country, funk and stripped-down ballads are mixed on the two and actually provides even more space for Júníus Meyvants raspy voice and qualities as a lyricist.
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