Blog: When The Gramophone Rings

"Compared by critics to Arcade Fire, they veer more towards the emulation of Mumford & Sons on this assured debut..." Of Monsters and Men | My Head In An Animal For all the things that Iceland is associated with – like volcanoes, Top Gear and that awful Journey to the Centre of the Earth movie - music isn’t really one of them. Aside from Sigur Rós - the BBC’s answer to an apparent branding crisis – the Atlantic island hasn’t turned out a great deal of artists that have been noticed by [...]