Under names including Seabear, Sin Fan Bous, Sin Fan and Pojke – Sindri Már Sigfússon has been involved in a lot of very fine music over many years. His latest album as Sin Fang, Flowers, might just be the best of the lot. Always wonderful to watch live, Sin Fang are amongst a brilliant local […]
Right. I'm excited. Again. Just over a week from now, Sónar festival will be kicking off a two day party at beautiful, lovely, happy place Harpa (right) in Reykjavík. There will be 3,500 people watching bands on 4 stages, one of which is the underground car park converted, that will be interesting!It's a very exciting […]
In 2006, a few years after I had established that there was more, much more, to Icelandic music than those Sugarcubes and their singer, an album appeared called Wine For My Weakness. It's an wonderous album that I still listen to regularly, I have loved it from the first time I played it. The live […]
This list was compiled with votes from 64 voters, almost exclusively from outside of Iceland. 29 different records got some love, and still nobody nodded in the direction of Björk's remix album. Like I said last year, Iceland is truly full of wonderful music-makers and some lovely fans too. Here's our best of 2012 list […]
Welcome to the (not very) grand announcement of the second annual poll for the best Icelandic album of the year! Last year, I couldn’t believe how many votes there were and Sóley was surely thrilled when her superb album "We Sink" pipped FM Belfast and Björk to the big prize (hmmm, there should be a […]
I knew very little about Epic Rain before Iceland Airwaves 2012. I had heard their 2011 E.P. A Murder Of Crows but shamefully wasn't aware that they had released the album Elegy during 2012. I caught them in Þýski barinn on the Saturday night of Airwaves (they were on just before Ghostigital) and became more […]
For the third year in a row, Ólafur Arnalds delivered one of my standout sets of Iceland Airwaves. I love the music, of course, but I love being in an audience stunned to open-mouthed silence, I enjoy that communal feeling. Nobody makes a sound or moves, and then at the end of each song there […]
I've been back on this island, as opposed to that island, for a week now and I must confess that the thoughts of Iceland Airwaves 2012 haven't been organised into what I could call a 'review' yet. If you want a review RIGHT THIS MINUTE then I strongly suggest you take a look at what […]
My final pre Iceland Airwaves interview for this year is with Tilbury. They are almost certainly going to be the first band I see at the festival unless as they open proceedings in Harpa Silfurberg on Wednesday night. They may be a new band but some things about them might seem familiar – as we […]
The annual competition for new bands in Iceland, Músíktilraunir, has an excellent track record of finding talent. Not least the winners from two years ago, a band called Of Monsters & Men, have had a little bit (A LOT) of international success. So it is kind of a big deal. Being the Icelandic music weirdo […]