LOST KINGDOMS

On her latest album, The Last Kingdom – Destiny Is All, Eivør Pálsdóttir revisits her powerful collaboration with the Emmy-winning composer John Lunn for the Netflix/BBC TV show, The Last Kingdom. Now its final chapter has been turned into a feature-length movie, Seven Kings Must Die, Eivør and Lunn have teamed up with Danny Saul to create an album of music inspired by it. The Faroese singer-songwriter discusses throat singing, her love for Enya and returning to her birthplace.

Jeremy Allen

Eivør Pálsdóttir’s recent single, The Beloveds, begins with a deliberate stomp that could be the Great Heathen Army caving in a door with a battering ram, then comes a dark liturgy sung in Faroese with words that translate into English as: ‘In the cradle of life/Fire frolics/Licks the horizon…’. All the while, Eivør is throat singing ominously like a mythical siren in the water as we board the Stygian Ferry to Hades. The Beloveds no doubt commits every sin known to streaming as Adderall-minded listeners go on the lookout for easy ear candy, and yet – Daniel Ek be damned – it’s completely and utterly mesmerising. The Beloveds is the opening track on Eivør’s latest album, The Last Kingdom – Destiny Is All, recorded with British film composers John Lunn…

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