Cottongrass is the first single from Kit Grill’s upcoming album, Andøya. The 12-track album was inspired by a three-week solo residency Grill undertook in January 2025 on the island of Andøya, Norway, located within the Arctic Circle. The album is an ambient, modern classical, experimental work that captures the vastness and unpredictability of the Arctic landscape. The music moves through the sensory extremes of that environment: ice cracking, storms forming and fading, the rumble of an earthquake, waves crashing, harsh winds, trudging through snow, and the cold sting of freezing air.
The album aims to reflect both the landscape itself and the shifting emotions that came with living in isolation and the arctic environment. The music and photography serve as a recorded diary of his time there, documenting the experience day by day.