New album · Out June 13, 2025
Twelve tracks recorded between November 2023 and August 2024 in a rented warehouse in Reykjavík. Tape loops, room tone, a borrowed Juno-60, and Maren's voice at 3 a.m. No click track. No auto-tune. No safety net.
Slow Light began as a field recording project — Maren capturing the sound of her apartment's radiator at dawn, the hum of fluorescent lights in the corridor outside Studio Grótta, the particular silence of an Icelandic winter morning at 11 a.m. when it's still dark.
"I wanted to make a record that sounded the way slow light feels — those moments where time stretches, where you notice the grain of things. The tape machine was running for nine months before I realized it was already the album."
Mixed by Ólafur Kári at Sundlaugin Studio. Mastered by Heba Kadry in Brooklyn. The vinyl pressing — 180g, translucent smoke — ships from a plant in Ålgård, Norway. Limited to 2,000 copies. No repress planned.
Fen Records
LP / Digital
47:32
2,000
12 tracks · 47:32
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Maren at Studio Grótta, Reykjavík. Photo by Katrín Davíðsdóttir, 2024.
Written & performed by
Maren Lys
Produced by
Maren Lys & Ólafur Kári
Mixed at
Sundlaugin Studio, Mosfellsbær
Mastered by
Heba Kadry, Brooklyn
Additional musicians
Hildur Ársælsdóttir — cello, tracks 4, 7, 11
Tomás Guðmundsson — upright bass, track 9
The radiator at Laugavegur 42 — all tracks, uncredited
Artwork
Sigurður Björnsson
Vinyl pressing
Norsk Plate, Ålgård
180g translucent smoke · limited to 2,000
Catalogue
FEN-027
