Although it’s been six years since Emiliana Torrini’s last album, the Roland Orzabal-produced Love in the Time of Science, the Icelandic beauty has been busy though largely hidden from view. She performed the haunting “Gollum’s Song” for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, wrote and toured with Thievery Corporation, collaborated with Smog’s Bill Callahan and provided Kylie Minogue with her 2003 #1 U.K. hit “Slow.” Lastly, she readied her sparse, whispering return to the spotlight, Fisherman’s Woman, an attention-rewarding listen bearing few traces of her lavish debut. [More]

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