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Discordant and diverse, in a cool way

Irony is definitely my cup of tea. If it's discordant, I’ll usually like it. If it's homogeneous, I generally won't. Therefore Húðlitað Klám, being a disco...

The lighter side of Egill

While bereft of the homemade, tinker-happy style that so distinguished his earlier work, Egill’s new album is nonetheless an excellent showcase of the man’s fine pop se...

Art, shouting, runaway glitchy madness

There’s a point where art-music becomes almost transcendentally self-indulgent and that is the point at which it also becomes magnificent. Amidst the rolling,...

A bit rough around the edges but a good debut.

MTSN are a noisy four piece who have been wowing crowds all this year with their energetic live shows and positive reviews. And finally their debut EP i...

I Am a Tree Now, the debut album of singer Þóra Björk, makes a rather valiant attempt to uphold the 'alt' end of the 'alt.pop' niche, but unfortunately falls somewhat short of the mark it is obviou...

Listen, if you're feeling...smooth. Don't, if you want to think.

Singer María Magnúsdóttir’s début is gutsy. A flowing blend of funk, soul, jazz and pop, the album has a sexy sound to it, a kin...

The core members of GusGus have ruled the Icelandic club scene for an obscenely long time (15 years?). And the miraculous thing is that they've stayed that course without altering their sound nor upda...

One of the interesting things about Akranes (apart from the road out of it) is the variety of music that is coming from there. Such as Worm is Green with their new album, Glow. Their downtempo electro...

There are some truly evil people out there. You had a man Like Josef Fritzl who kept his daughter and their children hidden from the world in a basement for eighteen years. And there is apparently a m...

Like one of those moody hipsters that hangs in the background and mumbles a lot, Kimono are back with a new album! And the title is bloody awful! Easy Music For Difficult People is the sort of title t...

A bit like visiting a museum with a class full of art students, Terminal is irritating, pretentious and occasionally grating, but mostly just a soothing and smoothly flowing waste of time. Its massive...

Morðingjarnir have been together for nearly five years, which in punk/hardcore terms means that they’re becoming grizzled old warhorses of the scene. And their third album sees them slowly moving a...

While Bloodgroups´ first album was brash, in your face and full of day-glo E numbers, Dry Land sees them relax and breath in a bit more. The chickenfart gurgling synths and minimal beats are still th...

Surprise, the third long player from singer Lára Rúnarsdóttir is—contrary to what the title might suggests—a rather unsurprising affair. The album presents an array of radio-friendly pop number...

Unlike the national potato harvest, 2009 saw Iceland produce a glut of releases from Electronic pop/dance acts. But with so many contemporaries sporting drum machines as accessories, it can certainly ...

This debut solo album takes in country-blues (The Silence Of The Night) , a kinda hoedown rock (Freeze-out) and purer, Donovan-ish folk (Carol, She’s A Meadow) in its flighty meander through familia...

I looked it up too; it means the transitional state between sleep and waking. Óskar Thorarensen – Jafet Melge/Inferno 5 – and his son Pan Thorarensen, aka Beatmakin Troopa, build on the organic e...

This essentially represents everything that’s wrong with Icelandic techno: all flashy cool and glossy sophistication without having any depth or songwriting skills to back it up. FEF wheels through ...

Úlpa have been lingering at the periphery of the Icelandic music scene for long enough to make something of a name for themselves, but I can’t remember ever meeting anyone who really likes them or ...

Found Songs is a project Ólafur Arnalds undertook last year. It involved
writing, recording and mixing a track every day for a week, then giving
them away for free via his Twitter account. The result...

Seven tracks of laconic resignation form Hudson Wayne’s third “full-length” and it stands firmly as the band’s most relaxed and confident offering yet, which is not to say it goes anywhere spe...

On the cover sleeve of Enchanted, Uni gives the impression of being otherworldly and inhabiting the spheres of artists such as Bat for Lashes, Tori Amos and the Grand Priestess Overlord herself, Björ...

BB & Blake comprises former GusGus-er Magnús Jónsson along with Vera Sölvadóttir. The band has been going for a while now, but their début album only saw the light of day this winter.

I’m goin...

Well, yes indeed: why not be proud of what you produce? We were massively proud of a cake we made yesterday. And then proud of the massive turd that the cake produced today. And, hey, wow, guess what?...

Not really an ‘album’ of ‘music’, unless you think of Weird Al Yankovic as a ‘musician’ who makes ‘albums.’ TSUÍS sees Sverrir Stormsker’s alter-ego belting out an inane collection ...