Valgeir Sigurdsson

Icelandic producer, performer and Bedroom Community label boss Sigurdsson has one foot in avant-pop and the other in contemporary classical. Here he presents new music on the heels of last year's haunting release, Dissonance, which conjured tectonically shifting textures from the viola de gamba (the cello's stranger, grainier cousin). Fans of his associates—Nico Muhly, Sigur Rós, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Tim Hecker, to name a few—will find a lot to love here.