March is over – can you believe it? We do not! But with the new month comes new music. That’s why Grapevine is chosen for this week.
Peace – Woods
Fríd got an interesting dichotomy – her lyrics and melody could easily put her in a tragic love affair between singers / songwriters (“She crawled away, far out into the woods on the run from time / she felt the wrinkles form / she must be gone by morning”) while her surprisingly low-pitched traps strike and an extreme automatic tone drags her into this evening’s voice. Good thing we love both. HJC
Crumbs – Nails and salt
As soon as this song started playing in the office in Grapevine, the reporters looked down and found their hands covered in well-worked veins and arms in these tight muscles that you only get from working a hard day. At the same time, our women left us for an oil baron, the newspaper factory called to say they were shutting down, and there was nothing to do but sit on our dispensers and think about what to do tomorrow. We have to rebuild the magazine and think only of our lost love and follow only the new Utah Phillips cover of Krummi. “This is life for an old cowboy. HJC
ISLAND – Do not forget me
Sweet stuff !! We introduce the sisters Brynja Mary Sverrisdóttir and Sara Victoria Sverrisdóttir, who compose the pop duet EYJAA. The debut of their single, “Don’t Forget Me”, is a sunny, bouncy, happy and happy pop song that makes you long for the summer days where you could lie out in your bathing suit and sip green juice or something of equal hope. Tbh, I liked the song until I went to lunch and unknowingly started humming the background voice all the time. So yes, it’s a certified worm. Suitable song title. HJC
Possimiste – Paradise
Hallelujah! Possimiste has apparently created this scattered, booming, bluesy, vicious pearl to soundtrack our journey to the Promised Land. Shadows by Karin Drijer and Lykke Li abound here; maybe Paradise is somewhere Nordic. Let’s hope so. With the earth southwest of Grapevine’s offices expanding hot gas – and the earth beneath us rumbling – we could make this trip sooner than we had planned. So it would be nice not to have to go too far. But what song to take us there! HJC
The Mind – Astronauts
“Astronauts” means “astronaut,” and the song certainly has that pulsating feel to it – as if you are being dragged helplessly around the earth by gravity unless you are really shaking it, if that makes sense. The chorus means “please do not go”, which is actually quite sad to say astronaut, considering all the years they trained to become astronauts. Kind of rude to ask them to stay after 12 years of study and pilot’s license. But whatever the Mind is, it’s your spaceship and you can cry if you want. HJC
Prins Póló / Memfismafían / K.óla – Winter break
Some things are just right. Like beer and cigarettes. Junk food and soda. Or a hot tub and an icy storm. The collaboration between Prins Póló, Memfismafían and K.óla is like all this with a freshly shaken cocktail in both hands. “Vetrarfrí” (“Vetrarfrí”) is a great pop song with a strong Prins Póló taste, a touch of super-cool vibes from the Memphis Mafia and the originality of K.óli’s voice. Now it’s a cocktail that simply can not go wrong in any weather. VG
Magnús Jóhann – Hymn for Solla sister take 3
In contrast to “Without Listening”, Magnús Jóhann’s latest version is a striped piano-driven journey – it wanders around the octaves and progresses with an undeniable feeling of resigned melancholy. The next time I sit outside in the wind and think of a long cold cup of coffee and silence over the fateful day, I chose to leave the love of my life at the airport in search of a new, ethereal, what-I-thought-would-be-fulfilling life in a remote pasture and finally find that you can escape from who you are, but you will never hide from it and while the love in my life might have gone to a better version of myself, I’m just stuck in the past, floating through the fairy tale … I will listen to this song. VG
Flauel Villain – Tough Luck
If Andrew WK had brought his motivational speech trip to Reykjavík, then this catchy little beauty is the kind of delicious punk power pop that he could have inspired in The Youth Of Iceland. VV singer Jon Gauti sings that he has not realized it but we think he is a feeling. Yes you have it, Jon Gauti – Andrew told you how to put together a solid, barbed wire rocker, your little rook. Party Hard! JP
Source: The Nordic Page