Neoclassical big cheese ÓlAfur Arnalds, shares the first and last records he bought and the one he reaches for in an emergency
FIRST
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2PAC
‘All Eyez On Me’
(Death Row/Interscope, 1996)
“I’m pretty sure that this was the first record I bought with my own money. If it wasn’t this one, it would have been the one before, ‘Me Against The World’, but Tupac Shakur was my first purchase. I remember listening to his album for the whole summer on a boombox that I stole from my older brother.”
LAST
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Lund Quartet
‘Lund Quartet’
(Lund, 2013)
“A guy at the record store recommended this to me. When he told me it was a modern jazz band with a DJ I thought, ‘That just can’t be good…’, but I bought it and actually it’s fantastic! They were from Bristol and this seems to be their only album.”
ALWAYS
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Talk Talk
‘New Grass’
(Polydor, 1991)
“It’s 10 minutes long and forms the centrepiece of their fifth and final album, ‘Laughing Stock’. I have this routine whenever I have an exceptionally long or stressful day, I put this on when I get home. There is some comfort in it and at the same time reminds me of the bold choices artists have to make sometimes.”