Ásgeir releases new single "Hunter", as part of album "Julia (Deluxe Edition)"

Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir announced ‘Julia (Deluxe Edition)’, out September 9th via One Little Independent Records. Expanding on one of his most personal and acclaimed records to date, the deluxe edition will feature four bonus tracks, continuing with his revealing new single ‘Hunter’.

On his fifth studio album, ‘Julia’, released in February, Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir entered intriguing and uncharted territory. After years of engaging translators such as John Grant and working with the poetry of his father, Einar Georg Einarsson, Ásgeir penned his lyrics by himself for the first time in his long and celebrated career. The result was a deeply contemplative body of work, steeped in nostalgia, that saw Ásgeir meditating on his past regrets as well as his hopes for the future, guided by the spectre of the album’s title character.

Ásgeir has long been lauded for his intricate folk-pop, lush production, and wistful, emotive falsetto. ‘Julia’ marked a shift toward not just lyrical self-reliance but cathartic directness, songs that felt not just exquisitely performed, but lived in. “This was kind of the first time I was writing lyrics totally on my own,” he shared. “It was scary. I’m still trying to find myself within that. But I tried to open myself up and I learned a lot through that process, and it was definitely therapeutic for me.”

One of Iceland’s most successful exports, Ásgeir first broke through with ‘Dýrð í dauðaþögn’, the best-selling debut album in Icelandic history, before introducing international audiences to its English-language counterpart ‘In the Silence’. He continued to refine his sound with ‘Afterglow’ in 2017, ‘Bury the Moon’ in 2020, and ‘Time on My Hands’ in 2022.

Tour dates

• 22 Aug - NO, Bodø - Parkenfestivalen 2026
• 29 Aug - IS, Reykjavík - Harpa Hall
• 09 Sep - NL, Amsterdam - Paradiso
• 10 Sep - NL, Groningen - De Oosterpoort
• 11 Sep - DE, Hamburg - Mojo Club
• 12 Sep - DE, Berlin - Hole44
• 14 Sep - DE, Munich - Technikum
• 15 Sep - DE, Cologne - Kulturkirche
• 16 Sep - BE, Brussels - Botanique
• 18 Sep - FR, Paris - La Maroquinerie
• 19 Sep - FR, Caen - Big Band Cafe
• 20 Sep - FR, Lyon - Le Transbordeur

Tracklist

1. Quiet Life

2. Against the Current

3. Smoke

4. Ferris Wheel

5. Universe Beyond

6. Julia

7. Sugar Clouds

8. Stranger

9. In the Wee Hours

10. Into the Sun

11. Skýjaborg

12. Heartbeat

13. Hunter

14. Infinity