Bedroom Community

Bedroom Community is a music collective and record label founded in 2006 by producer Valgeir Sigurðsson, along with Nico Muhly and Ben Frost. It is based on the outskirts of Reykjavík, Iceland, and also houses Greenhouse Studios. Drowned in Sound has called it "one of the best guarantors of quality, even importance, out there," and previously referred to it as "[t]he best record label in the whole of Iceland and maybe even the entire world." The Line of Best Fit described the label as "more of an ecosystem cultivating music than a traditional record label."

In 2011, Pierre-Alain Giraud directed a documentary titled Everything Everywhere All The Time, following Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly, and Valgeir Sigurðsson on a collective tour. It premiered at the Reykjavík International Film Festival and later screened at events like CPH:DOX and Iceland Airwaves. For the label's 10th anniversary in 2016, several artists went on another Whale Watching Tour, this time to the USA. Sigurðsson said the tour was a chance to "create something uniquely belonging to the live experience" from familiar material, fueled by "joyful energy and appreciation for each other, but also tension, blood and sweat."

At Iceland Airwaves 2016, the collective performed with Crash Ensemble, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and conductor André De Ridder at Harpa. Ja Ja Ja Music called the performance "diverse and powerful," noting that it offered surprises throughout and served as both a testament to the label's achievements and a statement of intent for the future.

Artists on the label include Valgeir Sigurðsson, Nico Muhly, Ben Frost, Paul Corley, Sam Amidon, Daníel Bjarnason, Puzzle Muteson, Nadia Sirota, James McVinnie, Emily Hall, Manchester Collective, and Rakhi Singh. Associates include Daniel Lopatin, Jónsi, Nathan Salon, and Tim Hecker. Releases span from 2006 (Nico Muhly's Speaks Volumes) to 2021 (Jónsi's Obsidian and Valgeir Sigurðsson's Kvika), with notable titles such as Ben Frost's A U R O R A, The Wasp Factory, and By The Throat; Sam Amidon's I See The Sign and All is Well; and collaborative works like Sólaris and Everything Everywhere All The Time / Whale Watching Tour.