Monday 29 December 2008



Fljótur áður Það bræða skrifa a staða óður í Sprengjuhöllin

(photo: Facebook)

(photo: Facebook)

Lest you think that Sigur Rós is the only Icelandic band to have had a very good 2008, I wish to draw your attention to Sprengjuhöllin.  Their biography reveals that the band’s fan base covers “art school hipsters, mechanics, housewives, convicts and politicians”, and since I don’t fit into any of those demographic categories, I’ve decided to add one of my own:  “lovers of great pop music”.  Sprengjuhöllin easily charmed Iceland with their arresting, effortless pop stylings with their 2007 debut, Timarnir okkar, which was one of the best selling records on the ice island last year.  They went back to work with producer Valgeir Sigurdsson (Bjork, Bonnie “Prince” Billy) for their more ambitious follow up, Bestu kveðjur.  The strings and grand-scale orchestrations knob has been turned up to 11 on Bestu kveðjur, and the effect is a shimmering sheen on a set of pop classic influenced equally by The Kinks and Velvet Underground as by Blur and The Strokes.

MP3: Sprengjuhölllin “Týnda Mín”
Myspace: Sprengjuhölllin
Facebook: Sprengjuhöllin

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