Iceland's Ceasetone provides your ASMR moment of the day

10 July 2017, 12:30 | Written by Paul Bridgewater

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Hafsteinn Þráinsson began Ceasetone as an acoustic project solo project back in 2012 alongside his collaborations as a player, composer, producer with Icelandic artists such as Axel Flóvent and Agent Fresco.

Fleshed out to a full band (Sólrún Mjöll Kjartansdóttir on drums and Jökull Brynjarsson on bass and keys), Þráinsson delivered the first Ceasetone album Two Strangers last year and it racked up a nomination for album of the year at the Icelandic Music Awards.

New song "Stranded" is taken from an upcoming EP of the same name and finds its feet through an emotional weight that washes through the entire song, recalling the more tender moments of Loney Dear or Bon Iver.

"It's a song about escapism and the endless search for distraction from the conflicts going on in your head," Þráinsson tells us. "[It's] a simple song with an upfront meaning, a style that Ceasetone is maybe not known for but It was such a raw emotion it is rooted from that this style came to me as the most natural. Sometimes you need the rawness to portay things authenticly and often that is the biggest challenge.

The Stranded EP is focused on acoustic sounds, Þráinsson explains - something of a departure from the heavier and often synthetic elements of Two Strangers "It is just my nature to be diverse in music making," he adds.