Ólafur Arnalds had a cold knot of dread in his stomach when he flew to Cork to say farewell to his friend and musical collaborator Eoin French – aka Talos – shortly before his death, last August.

This was something Eoin French thought of as he was dying, creating what he knew would be his final album with his close friend Ólafur Arnalds, A Dawning. And this was something Ólafur Arnalds learned ...

Operating under the stage name Talos, Eoin French was an unheralded virtuoso of Irish dream pop. Each of his three studio albums was sublime in its own distinct way, whether conjuring beautifully ...