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Month: June 2024
Baula – “Heavy Heart, No Tears” (2024)
Baula are the Swedish/Icelandic duo of Karolina Thunberg and Ísak Ásgeirsson. Their debut EP Drought came out in 2019, a four-song indie-rocker that announced the pair’s talent, though it would be five years until we heard from them again with their first full-length album Heavy Heart, No Tears. Right from the first chord of the […]
Taugadeildin – “Þegar Dauðir Rísa Upp” (2024)
There are some exceedingly hard-to-find and commensurately expensive Icelandic albums. I’m by no means an authority, but if you give me 60 seconds I can name a handful that have at some point breeched the thousand dollar threshold – things like original pressings of the 1973 prog-rocker Icecoss, Björk’s 1977 self-titled debut (which ironically came […]
Duft – “Altar Of Instant Gratification” (2024)
A box of records arrived from Iceland the other day, chock full of new releases. I used to be able to more or less keep track of the music coming out of that scene, but today it’s all but impossible – there’s just a metric ton of interesting stuff hitting the streets every single month. […]
Algebra Suicide – “The Secret Like Crazy” (1987)
I don’t recall precisely how I learned of Algebra Suicide. I know it was post-COVID, but I don’t know if I read something that made me want to give them a listen, or if they popped up unexpectedly on a Spotify playlist. But either way I remember being speechless the first time I heard one […]