Hailing from Reykjavík, Iceland, aYia is made up of: Ásta Fanney, Kári Einarsson and Kristinn Roach. A haunting debut, the nine track self-titled album is moody yet kinetic, the electronically produced melody dips and rises as the vocals soar. The album was mixed and mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson. Explaining the album, the band say “it is a gathering of different aspects, mostly connected to the extremes of existing. It rattles the idea of fragility, changing the interior of the surroundings…it is a concrete formalization of a poetic gesture, genetically enhanced to become something unfamiliar.” Likening their sound to a plant grown in a lab with an abnormal environment the band state is their first collection of “experiments designed to interact with human emotion”.With barely any information about the band available online, aYia play abstract electro-pop. With little material released, they have played Roskilde, Eurosonic and The Great Escape, along with Iceland’s major festivals and touring Europe with fellow Icelanders Gus Gus. Released November 16, 2018