Today's Top Tune:  Ásgeir  ‘Sugar Clouds’ 

On his fifth studio album Julia, out February 13 Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir steps into intriguing new territory. After years of collaborating with translators and drawing from the poetry of his father, Ásgeir writes his lyrics entirely on his own for the first time in his celebrated career. The result is a deeply contemplative, nostalgia-soaked body of work that finds him reflecting on past regrets and future hopes, guided by the lingering presence of the album’s title character — a spectral figure threading through the record like memory itself.

(One Little Independent Records)