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I Forget It’s There: Lay Low (2008)
According to the bio on Last.fm, Lay Low (the nom de microphone of Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir) has topped the Icelandic charts with her 2006 debut, Please Don’t Hate Me. Now, I don’t doubt for a second that Icelandic music charts exist – I know they do – but a brief search on the Internet yielded nothing reputable. How are we non-Icelanders to know what’s hot in Iceland?
I prefer to think of Iceland as another planet, a distant place I’d like to go to if only I had a rocket ship to take me there. Lay Low is not only living proof that this planet exists, but also that they have been observing us. “I Forget It’s There” simultaneously invokes Patsy Cline, Howlin’ Wolf, and Mazzy Star. I don’t know about you, but I find this interplanetary exchange of culture inspiring.
But seriously folks, the record is great. Go get it. No rocket ship required.
