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Iceland’s Jon Thor Birgisson (the ethereal-voiced business lead vocalist and frontman of Sigur Rós) and his partner Alex Somers (an associate of the music group Parachutes as well as the developer of a lot of the image get in touch with for Sigur Rós’ albums) create gently atmospheric function in …

Slot Blue can be an instrumental, ambient saving task by Minnesota-based musician Adam Adolescent. Young started using the Slot Blue name around once as his better-known Owl Town project was initially gathering popularity in 2007. The mainly electronic-based Slot Blue tunes are explained by Young to be “dreamscapes” and he …

Sin Fang Bous — shortened to Sin Fang after one album — was a single task of Seabear founder and singer/songwriter Sindri Már Sigfússon. Hailing from Reykjavik, Iceland, Sigfússon originally founded Seabear being a single effort and added other people. Sin Fang Bous discovered him delving into likewise minded place …

Icelandic chamber pop band of Monsters and Men broke onto the worldwide music scene in 2011, only a year following successful their country’s countrywide battle-of-the-band competition Musiktilraunir. Hailed mainly because “the brand new Arcade Open fire” in Moving Stone journal, the band’s unique lineup comprised vocalist/guitarists Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and …

After spending 16 years as the singer/guitarist in the Icelandic group Sigur Rós, Jon Thor Birgisson renamed himself Jónsi and began a solo job. Though he previously utilized the name before on the task with Alex Somers (as Jónsi & Alex on 2009’s recording Riceboy Sleeps), the pixie-voiced vocalist’s first …