Anna von Hausswolff

She’s a classically trained organist, but her music defies even the faintest notion of old-fashionedness.

 

Not least on her gripping new album Iconoclasts—a genre-straddling epic whose richly detailed corners have found room for both Ethel Cain and Iggy Pop. The Swedish musician knows how to command a church space, a dark club, and the demanding audiences who crave the kind of dense intensity associated with Swans. You may have also heard her music in the Cannes-awarded film Sound of Falling. Ritual intimacy.