Author: Óli Dóri & Davíð Roach
Straumur: East Of My Berlin—Icelandic Synth Stars On The Move
Electro-pop duo East of My Youth have been making international rounds in the past years. In the middle of September…
Straumur: Poem Thiefs Dancing In The Disco Lights
Grísalappalísa, Iceland’s premier literate new wave band, just put our their first new song in like ages, and threw a…
Straumur: Power-Punk And Trippy Historic Sites
Icelandic-Brightonian punk-pop trio, Dream Wife, just put out the song ‘Fire’ and it sure has been blazing up music publications,…
French Masters Do Distortion Justice
In our last column we wrote about ‘Take Me Down,’ the first single from the upcoming EP ‘Unravel,’ by electronic…
Straumur: The Old And The Nu, With Black Pox, Par-Ðar, EinarIndra & More
The rapper Bróðir Big just released his debut LP, ‘Hrátt Hljóð’ (“Raw Sound”), and while there sure is a swelling…
Straumur: Anderson .Paak-robatics and kef LAVÍK Videodrome
First things first, the Secret Solstice festival that took place in Laugardalur from June 1518 was a monstrous blissful good…
Straumur: Juggling Pineapples With Smjörvi
Old favourites Bárujárn, who haven’t been active for quite a few years, returned last week out of the blue with…
Straumur: More Songs About WD-40 And Djammviskubit
An emerging electronic act with an eccentric name caught our eye recently: two guys who go by the names of…
Straumur: Mountains Between Mountains
Músíktilraunir, the annual Icelandic Battle of the Bands, was held a couple of weeks ago. The winning band was Between…
Straumur’s Top 5 Icelandic Albums of 2016
#5 Samaris – ‘Black Lights’ On their third and most mature album Samaris deliver threefold on their early promise as…
Straumur: Disco And Not Disco
Earlier this summer we introduced you to the debut album from Andi, who makes delightful retro-sounding instrumental synth pop with…
STRAUMUR: Excursion To The Ambient Underwaterground
Sindri Freyr Steinsson is a jack of many musical trades. He explores surf punk with a theremin twist in the…
Straumur: Life Secretive
A comprehensive overview of the 2016 Secret Solstice experience. Thursday The Good Flatbush Zombies Flatbush Zombies incited a minor riot…
Straumur: Icelanders Abroad
For the first time in the history of this column, the Straumur editorial board went outside of Iceland to mine…
Sci-fi Disco, 60s Lounge And Berlin Techno
An odd recording came over our transom last month: the self-titled debut album/cassette of electronic musician Andi, which came out…
Straumur: Tarnished
Musical recycling is a long and enduring tradition, kept alive this month by a gem of a remix, Einar’s Indra…
Nintendo, Slack Rock And Psychos!
This month saw the release of ‘Polyhedron’, the debut LP from the long-overlooked one-man band Laser Life. The one man…
Straumur: High Quality House & Melting Hearts
The editorial board of Straumur travelled all the way to Ísafjörður over Easter to witness the always extremely chilled and…
Straumur: The Voice Of A (de)Generation
The find of February for us was local band kef LAVÍK. Although they didn’t perform at Sónar, they were there…