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My Five Albums of the Year: Moon Gardens, Sugar baths And Delusion Inducing Tunes
This year, starting my internship at The Grapevine, I got to finally experience Reykjavík’s hectic and opulent music scene. As a result, I’m starting to add some Icelandic artists to my book of favourites. Here are five Icelandic Albums and Singles, released…
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New Icelandic Music: Countess Malaise, SiGRÚN, sideproject ++
Like waking up with nine extra arms that have been tidying up your house and doing your taxes while you were asleep, here are the nine new tracks from the Icelandic music scene that caught our attention—for better, or for worse—this month.…
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Grapevine Playlist: Hatari, Úlfur, HRNNR & Smjörvi & More
After the annual glut of new releases that comes around the Iceland Airwaves festival, here are five new tracks that firmly caught our attention in recent weeks. Hatari – X Everyone’s favourite authoritarian-synth-bondage-theatre-punk oddities Hatari recently dropped their debut EP. The opening…
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Grapevine Airwaves Super Review: Thursday
Airwaves day 2: more drunk, more concerts, and more madness. Everybody agreed that one band ruled them all and we all got a bit of BDSM love. We didn’t catch them all, but like with Pokémon, it’s about the hunt; not the…
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Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson, Furniture Painter
‘Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson, Furniture Painter’ is that most maligned and misunderstood of musical entities: the concept album. Written by Ívar Páll Jónsson, it tells the story of Elbowville, a small nation that lives in the elbow of said…
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Music You Can Sit To
As the set continues Hausswolff and her band prove themselves masters of texture, which ranges from ominous, to somber, and finally hopeful. They’re not in a hurry to get there though. They know a journey is in the traveling, not the destination.…
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Something Old, Something New: From Country To The Cutting Edge
Ladies and gentleman, come on in. We have quite a spectacle here at Kaldalon this evening. On drums, we have the polar opposite of Keith Moon! This man hits the drums like no other: he’s never bruised a skin. He is indisputably…