Normally I try to avoid unofficial releases of actual albums. I’m fine with picking up a live Led Zep record from a show in the in 1970s, but I wouldn’t buy some bootleg copy of Houses of the Holy. The former gives me access to something that the band themselves never put out. The latter […]
Category: Iceland
Skjálfti – “Society of Witnesses” (2026)
Skjálfti is the noise project of Icelander Þórir Georg. Society of Witnesses is his first release on the recently re-vitalized Hundrað Prósent Plastík label (though hardly his first release – Skjálfti has been active since 2017), and right from the start it assaults the senses, a high-pitched whine boring a hole through your jaw like […]
Wüünderbar Holokaust – “This Machine Fucks” and “Wüünderbar Spilar Wunderlich” Cassettes (2026)
These are the final two cassettes in the recent spate of releases from the Icelandic noise label Hundrað Prósent Plastík and in a way I’m glad I saved them for last, because Wüünderbar Holokaust’s This Machine Fucks feels like the synthesis of the three other aritsts who were part of this series, Mávar, Ófreskja, and […]
Mávar – “Corium” Cassette (2026)
Mávar makes anxiety ridden ambient noise. That’s what the insert that comes with this cassette says. And it’s not wrong. I was bummed when Icelandic DIY noise label Hundrað Prósent Plastík went dark after releasing five wonderfully-packaged CDs back in 2023. But tiny, dare I say micro, labels do come and go, and I was […]
From The Vault – Interview with Dream Wife’s Rakel Mjöll
Back in the late 2010s I wrote a bit for RVK On Stage, a cool English-language magazine focused on the Icelandic music scene. Alas, the print version only lasted four issues, and while the website hung around for a while after that, when I tried the url earlier today my browser flashed all kinds of […]