Folk & World
Nuclear Blast Records · 16 October 2026
“Fangað / Trapped” runs three minutes and five seconds, sits ninth out of ten and is the only track on “Tungl” where Eivør isn’t singing alone: her sister Elinborg is with her, and the throat singing comes back. “Tungl” is the Faroese word for moon, and this is the first album Eivør has released through Nuclear Blast, a metal label with nothing to do with what this record sounds like. It arrives on 16 October, two years and four months after “Enn”. One of the ten tracks had been out for a while: “Healer” appeared as a single on 28 April, five and a half months before the album.
The record moves between the two languages without making a point of it. “Og mánin græt / And The Moon Cried” opens with the drums out front and the atmosphere built on top of them, and “Drekafljóð / Dragon Maiden” carries on down the same road with electronic textures stepping in and out of the rhythm. “Verjugarðar / Walls” is the widest gesture of the ten, the one that comes closest to a film score; “Eon”, in English, settles for piano and a string arrangement; and “Tann tú saknar / The One You Long For” rides a bass line that pulses with the electronics kept well back. “Everyone But Me” closes the album, the barest track on it and the longest, at five minutes and twelve seconds.
Eivør’s voice, layered over itself, is the centre of everything and also what eventually flattens the record: the method — a sustained voice over an electronic haze — is applied so consistently that the tracks where it isn’t are precisely the ones you remember. And the gesture that stands apart from everything else, the two-voice throat singing with Elinborg, is on the shortest track of all and almost at the end, when there’s no room left to do anything with it. The material is there; what fails it is the way it’s spread out.
Rating: 7.6/10
Text by Alba Puiggròs