18 May 2010

FM... Awesome!

I remember hearing a song by Icelanders FM Belfast like, literally years ago and thought it was really good, but then never saw anything about them afterwards. Now, thanks to Stereogum, i've been reconnected, this time with the video to their new single, Underwear.
It's suitably weird, in a way that most things are that come from that Arctic island, lyrics about running up the hill in your underwear seemingly forgetting that it's fucking freezing up there most of the year.
Along with the weird, there's also a good dose of melancholy as they describe living in a place where they "count the days until nothing", a place where everyone "keeps off the grass". I don't advise a trip to Cambridge anytime soon.
It's got a cool video that shows a selection of people dancing in slow motion, matching the elegiac beats of the song.


This is the band's Myspace

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