Valravn - Kraka

Valravn Valravn released the long awaited second album in September 2009. With "Koder på snor", Valravn take new steps towards an even more personal music, which is true to its Nordic roots but is equally a child of the present and the future. Edgy, atmospheric and deliciously fearless, Valravn drags the listener on a mental and musical journey over sweeping forests and deep into moody waters. The result is strange and wonderful, intensely outlandish and utterly hypnotic. On the album as much as live, the charismatic Faroe Islands singer Anna Katrin Egilstrøð is the narrative heart of Valravn - with a rare and very efficient dynamic, she moves from storm to stillness with the natural ease of the sea rising with the tide. Transforming the traditional into the extraordinary, Valravn finds an edgy drama that is just downright fierce, painting a landscape that is thoroughly modern but with ancient callings. A stunning, headlong leap into folktronica.