28.7.2010

Why do people try to cover Kate Bush?

26.7.2010

Didn’t know much about Svarthöfði (Icelandic for Darth Vader) but I took a punt on these guys through Gogoyoko.

23.7.2010

Minimalistic vocal-centric lo-fi is a tough game to play.

22.7.2010

With all the rock being recorded in Iceland, you’d think we’d have found one producer who can make it sound the way it should.

21.7.2010

If you’ve ever witnessed Ólafur Arnalds perform, you know that his music has an almost magical aura. I recently saw a hall with hundreds of metal-festival attendees hushing each other fervently while devotedly taking in Ólafur and his string quartet.

19.7.2010

There was a point somewhere about five years ago when post-rock went from still being something, kinda, to becoming full-on cock-rock that overcompensating dudebros could justifiably cry over.

7.7.2010

To my knowledge, the only notable thing to have come from Dalvík recently is Friðrik Ómar, a poisoned pop dwarf whose music is the equivalent of a dozen Care Bears vomiting onto the face of a small child.

18.6.2010

Like a dry-hacking weasel. Put it out of its misery with a shovel.

14.6.2010

A lot of the acoustic based releases making the rounds this year seem to be following the same tired 60s and 70s template of Neil young/Nick Drake/Van Morrison. The end result of this is that they all seem to have the atmosphere of a stale fart.

11.6.2010

Everybody and their mother are talking about atmospheric black metal these days. Sure enough, there's a tidal wave of bands trying to get their piece of the pie, by throwing in some ambient keyboard noises and dragging their otherwise uneventful songs out.

4.6.2010

It would be nigh on impossible to describe the complexities of Daníel Bjarnason´s debut album in 150 words, but suffice it to say it´s pretty powerful stuff.

1.6.2010

Exploding out of the gate in true Nasum fashion, both guns grinding, with an evil yet instantly memorable main riff.

28.5.2010

Ever since Jakobínarína disappeared, Iceland has been crying out for a rousing INDIE ROCK band to rally behind.

27.5.2010

At school, most people would go mental over Indie or the latest dance music. However, there was always someone who would glide around acting like a 40-year old, saying they were into the likes of Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley, saying that the music “spoke to them” about their lives