Iceland has long produced artists with a unique take on the world, and one of my favorites is Sindri Már Sigfússon. He goes by the moniker Sin Fang when not fronting the Icelandic collective Seabear. Sigfússon has returned with Sin Fang's third LP, Flowers , which is set for a mid-February release on Morr Music . There are a few reasons I consider Sigfússon one of the more cutting-edge musicians around. For one, he produces highly creative songs that make up very well-rounded albums. Clangour , his [...]
Sin Fang at KEXP's broadcast from KEX Hostel in Reykjavik photo by Jim Bennett Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription . This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s selection, featured on the Midday Show with Cheryl Waters, is "Shine For Me" by Sin Fang from the 2012 EP Half Dreams on Morr Music . Sin Fang - [...]
A Monday without work is like a Christmas without the fighting so to celebrate we've decided to clear the decks of our in-transit basket – a purgatory of sorts for songs that are too good to guillotine but missing a vital ingredient to ensure a post of their own. Chances are you'll find something lip-smacking enough to see you through the incessant march towards a crueller Tuesday than normal. KD Baby Eagle And The Proud Mothers - Brave Women More Info: Baby Eagle [...]
Man I have to be the luckiest guy around to have Ryan Radler sending me a mixtape one week and Steph Lund another the very next. I mean, I hear mixtapes all the time, but not once in my online scavenger hunts have I run into such unique tastes and diverse quality. Cheers to the to the best, most eclectic and tasteful, mixtapes in the game. Every time I hear the the latest installment of LMDM it's my new favorite. Steph gets better every time so that makes sense, but Aout 2012 is something special. From top to bottom [...]
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Brand new video from Iceland's Sin Fang (formerly Sin Fang Bous), the ridiculously talented Sindri Már Sigfússon who also fronts Seabear . "Only Eyes" is off the upcoming Half Dreams EP, out 5/25 via Morr Music .
Sin Fang (Bous) "Catch the Light" "Tonight I'm fighting anyone willing Tonight I won't be a man letting love in I can't get her back on my pointless lies now I kissed her face and I slept in a bar" This is part two of my epic two part Song of the Day series that addresses the insanely important personal opinion I have that the solo acts Sin Fang Bous and [...]
Ο Sindri Már Sigfússon έκοψε πια το bous και με σκέτο το sin fang περνάει στο δεύτερο προσωπικό του άλμπουμ στα χνάρια φυσικά των seabear. Μεταξύ μας, για καλοκαίρι ούτε λόγος. Sin Fang "Summer Echoes" διαγωνίως Sin Fang : "Because of the blood " , posted with vodpod
Back from holidays! Now returning to your regularly scheduled programming. One of the best moments of my 2009 was having Robyn pull me out of my feverish, mid-October haze and drag me to the Pyramid Cabaret, where I got to experience, hands down, one of the best live performances I have seen to this day. I don't exactly recall what clicked in me, but Iceland's Sin Fang Bous (solo project of Seabear's Sindri Már Sigfússon)'s brand of hazy bedroom pop left me, and the rest of the audience, exhilarated and electrified. Since then, there [...]
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Sin Fang (formerly Sin Fang Bous ) is the solo project of Sindri Már Sigfusson, a major force in Icelandic band Seabear. I've found Sindri's work to be very engrossing and artistic, from the music itself to the videos Sigfusson creates. In fact, his last solo album, Clangour , cracked my top 10 for 2009. So it is with great anticipation that we await his follow up. And we won't have to wait long. Sin Fang's next album, Summer Echoes , is [...]
Creating a music video, in my opinion, should be about creating art. There are so many intricate elements that should go into a video that are so often left forgotten or, at least, unattended. First and foremost is the song itself - a video must compliment the art to which it is expanding from audio to video. Connecting the two is extremely important. Second is theme. The best videos have some storyline, vague or distinct. Or at least something visually interesting. What started below [...]
Útgáfufélagið Kimi Records verður með sérstakt kynningarkvöld (e. showcase) á tónlistarhátíðinni Iceland Airwaves þann 13. október, á fyrsta degi hátíðarinnar. Sjö hljómsveitir koma fram á hátíðinni og eiga þær það allar sameiginlegt að standa að útgáfu breiðskífu á árinu. Stafrænn Hákon , Snorri Helgason , Prinspóló , Miri , Benni Hemm Hemm , Swords of Chaos og Sin Fang . Kvöldið fer fram á Venue og hefst kl. 19:30. Til marks um öflugt útgáfuár hjá Kimi Records eru nokkrar hljómsveitir [...]
Take anything you love and make it a responsibility - eventually you wont love it like you use to (children excluded. That is biological). I'm not going to expound on that idea. If you've been coming here for any length of time you'll know that I like to explore. dig. dive. dust. understand ideas and their perplexing attributes at askew angles. Maybe it's all junk though. I don't know. I'm burned out on thinking about it. And So... I'm not listening to as much music either. Again say, burned out. So posting is less frequent - I'll post when I [...]
Sindri Már Sigfússon gives us a guided tour of Seabearia. Rating: 3.5/ 5 (2 votes cast) Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for links that don't make it onto the blog.
Seabear releases video for "I'll Build You A Fire," and head the U.S. for the first time ever!
Iceland's Seabear has built a new album and music video. This band writes gorgeous electro-folk music that you should familiarize yourself with, if you haven't already. The seven-piece, led by Sindri Már Sigfússon (aka Sin Fang Bous ), is following up their 2007 The Ghost That Carried Us Away debut with We Built A Fire . We were hooked on this band three years ago, and so were many others. We're told that Morr Music 's [...]
I thought I'd mix things up and get my best albums of the year 2009 out first then work backwards through what I listened to (According to Last.fm). I must say this was an amazing year for music and I plead with my friends who "cannot find anything new to listen to" that they just need to listen around, become an ear slut, do what you have to do to get into all this great music. Partly, this year for me has been a good one in music because I've been sitting at the computer so much after work [...]
2009 is a tough year to judge. I've checked out more albums this year than any year in the past. Well over 1,000. And there have been quite a few great ones as well. When this list began, it had 110 albums. I abandoned my top 33 and 1/3 for 45, and then said "screw it" and upped the number to an even 50. These are the top notch albums of the year, all worthy of praise. Despite trouble all around, 2009 wasn't all that bad. [...]
It was a bountiful year for finding good new bands. Rather than doing a traditional top 10 or 20 songs of the year, I'm going to devote at least a couple of posts this week to tracks that made my playlists. For this first post, I'll focus on bands I discovered for the first time in 2009. Portugal. The Man made a great retro-sounding song in People Say . I like almost everything the Builders and the Butchers put out (same goes for the Pains of Being Pure at Heart). Girls , The [...]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j imwinstead/ / CC BY 2.0 I'm just about done with my Top 50 Albums list for 2009, and that will be my last post of the year. At the beginning of January, I'll post a few Best of the Decade lists up. For now, here's a little gift bag of mp3s from records I liked, but didn't get a chance to talk about: Deastro : Friends Washed Out : Feel It All Around [...]
Favorite album (tie) Fever Ray – Fever Ray. The Knife’s Karin Dreijer Andersson harnesses dualities— organic/artificial, animal/human, male/female, adulthood/childhood—to create a fascinating and cohesive whole. I haven’t been able to stop listening ever since I first heard “If I Had a Heart” back in January. This is music constantly revealing itself, forcing you to look deeper. Sin Fang Bous – Clangour. The cover of this LP shows the song titles cobbled together from twigs, [...]
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