Eivør: Tungl as reviewed by Mark. J "each finesse-filled composition on Tungl is a master stroke of a musical savant"

 Eivør – Tungl (Nuclear Blast)

Eivør Pálsdóttir was on Faroese TV at thirteen. At fifteen, she fronted Clickhaze, and her self-titled solo debut followed in 2000. That first record was traditional Faroese ballads in a jazz idiom, and she has been moving away from it ever since. But the cultural flame is still in each release; this is an astonishing artist who has a diverse and breathtaking catalogue of releases. Combine this with frankly spectacular live shows regardless of the release, and you have an eclectic musical demigod or goddess who follows her own creative path, despite seeing herself as a "very curious musician"

Larva (2010) was experimental rock, Room (2012) lush chamber pop, and the 2015 pair Bridges and Slør leaned electronic. Slør set ancestral melodies against avant-pop arrangements and stark throat singing. After Segl (2020) and Enn (2024), she went from Season of Mist to Nuclear Blast in 2025. In 2021, she took the Nordic Council Music Prize. Now we have the glorious Tungl.

Album number 12 is ten solid tracks, and the titles run in both languages i.e:  “Og mánin græt / And the Moon Cried”, “Spøkilsir / Revenants”, “Hinumegin / The Other Side”, “Fangað / Trapped” (with her sister Elinborg) and the gothic dreamscape “Healer” and incredible closer “Everyone But Me”. And yet again, for the listener, you have another compelling album of depth and captivating ambience.

Check out her amazing interview with us as an excellent companion piece, full of insight and reflections from an amazing creative powerhouse:

https://www.devilshorns666.com/2026/11/eivr-tungl-moon-and-career-spent.html

Dark electro and trip-hop beats and hypnotic vocals over soft keyboard pads make intelligent and atmospheric songs that unfold slowly, with a metal-adjacent feel that comes from tension and release rather than distortion. That puts it a step heavier and more rhythm-driven than the folk-tinged electronics of Slør and Segl, with less reliance on a hook. Some listeners find it closer to rock than anything she’s done, though that is a fan’s read, and some reviews very weirdly called it restrained.

Resplendent with a soaring vocal range from light and soaring to deep and low, like previous releases, it creates an alternative record that has astute pop sensibilities. Her voice is always the spotlight, because you cannot be drawn to its power and aura-like charm. The themes run in line with earlier records: transformation, resilience, the darker stretches of life, with the moon as the guiding image. No track breakdown does this work of art justice; just listen to it from start to end...please!.

Eivør strikingly does what she wants, and whether in dips in Lana Del Rey, Chelsea Wolfe, Kate Bush or Lady Gaga territory, each finesse-filled composition on Tungl is a master stroke of a musical savant. Nuclear Blast gets a record that sounds nothing like the rest of its roster, and I think that’s why it works. 

Buy the album and support her great work.

Out now(I had a month off, hence the delay, sorry):

https://eivormusic.bandcamp.com/album/tungl

https://linktr.ee/eivormusic