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Video Premiere — Brotsjór Releases “The End Is Fear”
Promoting their latest track “The End Is Fear”, electronic rock band Brotsjór has a brand new music video out. Active since 2022, Brotsjór comprises the musicians and friends Breki Steinn Mánason and Hákon Freyr Aðalssteinsson. Much like the majority of Icelandic artists,…
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Grapevine New Music: Sykur, Exos, Róshildur & More
Fall. Autumn. Whatever you want to call it, Reykjavík’s got it hard. With the first snow hitting the capital earlier this week, residents are formally swapping out their summer wardrobe for their winter attire — donning various shades of beige and earthy…
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CYBER Is SAD :’(
Electronica duo CYBER resolve their troubled teenage years on their latest album To label CYBER simply as a hip-hop duo would do its members Salka Valsdóttir and Jóhanna Rakel — Joe — a great disservice. While certainly drawing from the well of…
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Kiasmos Returns
The influential Faroese-Icelandic electronic duo will end their hiatus with the release of II It’s difficult to gauge the exact influence minimalist electronica duo Kiasmos has had on the international techno and electronic music scene. Their ingenious combination of classical, electronic and…
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Future Aesthetics: Holly Herndon Pushes The Boundaries
Holly Herndon’s ‘Platform’ is one of the most dense, dizzying, constantly surprising electronica LPs of recent times. Devoutly experimental in nature, it melds broken beats, chopped-up chants, drones, spoken poetic fragments, lush synth textures, and all manner of stretched, shattered, pulverised electronic…
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Holly Herndon On The Excitement Of Live Performance
Ahead of the forthcoming Sónar Reykjavík festival, we recently spoke at length to rising electronica star Holly Herndon, who’ll be performing on Friday 19th at SonarHall. You can read our particularly edifying interview in our next issue, out on Friday, which features…
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M-Band – Haust
Hörður Már Bjarnason’s solo album ‘Haust’ (or “Autumn”), under his band name M-Band, at times seems to emulate the styles of more seasoned electronic musicians a little too closely, but ends up offering plenty of fresh sounds as well. GusGus is an…
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Track Review: HIMBRIM – Running In Circles
There’s not an immediately auspicious start to ‘Running In Circles’, the first track from electronica-upstarts HIMBRIM. After all, stuttering synths and echo-laden, back-spun vocal lines have undergone a little bit of a resurgence since Disclosure’s garage-nodding house became dance’s next big thing.…
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Rangling And Raving at Faktorý Upstairs
At times throughout last night at the Faktorý upstairs stage, it felt less so a case of how amazing the artist was, but more which period of Aphex Twin’s career the artist most respected. At other times it felt like a flat…