![]() ![]() The first Icelandic band to breach one billion Spotify plays, the five-piece litter their first two albums, My Head is an Animal (2011) and Beneath the Skin (2015), with talking trees, mountain sounds, running wolves, heavy stones and vengeful seas as well as spectral brethren – your howling ghouls and so on. No wonder this sublime landscape seeps into the sound of every musician hailing from Europe’s northernmost nation. Who knew there was this much sky? Trundling across moss-dotted, ancient lava plains en route to Reykjavik, my under-slept mind reaches for scraps of Nordic folklore: elves, dwarves the harrowing, troll sex scene from Swedish fantasy film Border… then we pass Taco Bell, and I’m back in reality… until the bus sweeps by a coastal inlet and time halts as inky mist-veiled mountains rise from the ocean. As I shuffle out of the airport terminal in Iceland, the boundless horizon is a wake-up call.
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