Tag: Iceland

Album: Mark W. Georgsson – ‘Faces and Places’

Rating: Recorded between Edinburgh and Reykjavik (yes, you did read that correctly) and produced by Rod Jones (Idlewild) and Arnar Guðjónsson from the cult Icelandic band Leaves, Faces and Places is the debut solo album by Scottish artist Mark W….

New Track: Pascal Pinon – ‘53’

‘53’ is an enchantingly lugubrious release taken from Pascal Pinon‘s (Icelandic twin sisters, Jófríður and Ásthildur Ákadóttir) third album Sundur. It marks a shift back to the experimental, yet unwaveringly mature, mood of their 2010 self-titled first album, self-produced when…

FILM REVIEW: RAMS

Rating: Rams is an Icelandic film about sheep farming. From that very short synopsis, you may not expect much from this indie film that won Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2015, but you’d be wrong. Rams is a beautiful, quiet…

EP: My Cruel Goro ‘My Cruel Goro’

Rating: My Cruel Goro‘s eponymous debut EP is bursting with noisy, riff-laden, alternative-rock tracks that will make even the most reluctant fan start throwing themselves around like an angst-ridden teenager. The band hail from both Iceland and Italy, and formed…