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, [...]
Τώρα για να είμαστε και ειλικρινείς. Ήταν το 2009 χρονιά που θα μπει στην Ιστορία; Έκανε κανείς την επανάσταση, την ανατροπή; ΟΟΟΧΙ (με την επιφύλαξη εγώ να έλειπα εκδρομή) Ακόμα και οι πιο αγαπημένοι μου, αυτό που κατάφεραν είναι το optimum της προσωπικής τους εξέλιξης.Ήταν μια πλούσια χρονιά, αλλά δεν ήταν χρονιά καινοτομίας. Κανείς δε πρότεινε κάτι εντυπωσιακά καινούργιο. Βυθιστήκαμε στο chillwave, επιβεβαιώσαμε ότι "Είναι Brooklyn, είναι καλό",την ψάξαμε στα δείγματα διασκεδάζοντας με κουρελάκια και σπαράγματα από το ωραιοποιημένο παρελθόν μας. Η θλίψη μας ταξίδεψε για μια ακόμη φορά στη [...]

Seabear's second album will be released in March.
Aside from making heaps upon heaps of great, anguish-or-glee-filled music all day long, today's artists much of the time also dabble in the other definitions of what it means to be an "artist"--by which we mean they utilize other means...

If you're anything like me, you read blog after blog after blog with lists that seem to mirror each other just a little bit too much. And then you ask yourself "Why?" Why do bloggers come up with these lists? Why are so many of them so much alike? Answer: I have no idea - but I'm going to do one anyways. This year wasn't exactly a stellar year, in my opinion, but there were some really good albums that came out that deserve noting again. Maybe they slipped under the radar with all the hype [...]
Ever watch a video and think "this might be 'art for the sake of make art' and STILL like it?" Until today, stuff like this would have been lost on me, but after watching this clip for Animal Collective 's "In The Flowers", I think I finally "get it": I think that I am not supposed to get it at all! You sure showed me, Animal Collective. At least I know why you went through all the trouble of picking out such a weird album cover . If you're looking for trippy, atmospheric [...]
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