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Track By Track: ‘Mobile Home’ By GusGus
GusGus join forces with Vök vocalist Margrét Rán on their new album ‘Mobile Home’, as well as hooking up with former bandmates Siggi Kinski and Stefán Árni for lyrical and visual collaborations. Grapevine met GusGus mainstay Biggi Veira, fellow founding member Daníel…
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GusGus, The Impossible Band: 25 Years Of Intrigue, Drama And Music
None of this was supposed to happen. GusGus was just supposed to be a short film, not a band. And even when it became a band, and remained a band, it—in some ways—still felt like more than a band. Cycling through catastrophes,…
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Seminal Icelandic Band GusGus Turn 20, Release Film Interviews
Time flies, huh? It might seem like yesterday, but 2015 marks the 20th anniversary since Icelandic electronica pioneers GusGus first appeared. They have, of course, evolved substantially across the intervening two decades. Starting as a hazy, experimental trip-hop art collective, they’ve passed…
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WHERE WERE WE? WHERE ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
To mark the beginning of a new year, we posed two questions to dozens of Icelanders, old and new. Representatives of every single political party, ministers, mayors and machinists alike (as per usual, the governing parties mostly ignored our queries). We asked…
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Empire Of Illusion
I read an interesting book last year, Chris Hedges’ ‘Empire of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle’. Even though it’s focused on U.S. affairs and realities, I found it corresponded with developments in Iceland and our current government’s…