Emiliana Torrini - Love In The Time Of Science - 1999

From 1994 to 1996 she released three albums in Iceland, Spoon (with a band of the same name), Crouçie d'Où La, and Merman. But she gained fame only in 1999 with Love in the Time of Science (produced by Tears for Fears' Roland Orzabal). Torrini was able to sing Gollum's Song, the end theme of Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers when fellow Icelander Björk backed out due to pregnancy. In 2005 she released the album Fisherman's Woman featuring the singles "Sunny Road" and "Heartstopper." In 2006, Torrini was nominated for the Icelandic Music Awards held in Reykjavík in four categories: Pop Album of the Year, Song of the Year (Sunny Road), Singer of the Year and Video of the Year (Sunny Road, Directed by Ali Taylor at Sherbet). She won all except Song of the Year. She has been a member of Icelandic artist group GusGus, and contributed vocals to several songs on their debut Polydistortion (1997), most notably "Why", which she sometimes still performs live. She co-wrote Kylie Minogue’s "Slow" in 2003. She also produced the track along with Dan Carey; the two were nominated for a Best Dance Recording Grammy Award in 2005 for their work on "Slow". Prior to these, she contributed vocals to songs on Thievery Corporation's 2002 record The Richest Man in Babylon. Torrini has toured with Moby, Sting, Dido, Travis, Tricky, and Adem.

1. to be free (3:25)
2. wednesday's child (3:54)
3. baby blue (4:05)
4. dead things (4:25)
5. unemployed in summertime (3:46)
6. easy (3:22)
7. fingertips (3:43)
8. telepathy (4:00)
9. tuna fish (3:13)
10. summerbreeze (3:48)
11. sea people (1:12)