Format Details: CD
Format Details:
Release Date: 16 February 2024
Label: Found / Found Recordings
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 810135150088
Genres: Rock
Release Date: 16 February 2024
Label: Found / Found Recordings
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 810135150071
Genres: Rock
Description
Remastered and first worldwide release (previously only limited availability in Iceland)
Since first bursting onto the global punk scene in 2018, Icelandic trio GR?A have thrilled audiences across the world by fully embracing an unruly freedom. Made up of sisters Hrafnhildur Einars Mar?ud?ttir (aka Hrabba, age 22) and Kar?l?na Einars Mar?ud?ttir (aka Kar?, age 20) and their childhood friend Fr??a Bj?rg P?tursd?ttir (also 22), the Reykjav?k-bred band merge elements of post-punk and noise-rock and art-pop with absolute abandon, arriving at an explosive yet magnificently arranged sound unlike any other. A local favorite, the Icelandic government has recently been sponsoring worldwide travel to share GR?A with the rest of the world and in 2023 they have played shows around the world including in UK, Western and Eastern Europe as well as USA dates including Washington DC, Seattle, Chicago and New York City. They have recently recorded an in studio performance at KEXP which will be broadcast worldwide in January 2024 and more worldwide touring is planned for early 2024 to support the vinyl and CD releases.
Listing iconoclasts like Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, and Bikini Kill among their longtime inspirations, the Icelandic punk band GR?A pursued their experimental impulses with more intensity and confidence on ? Glimmerheimi, matching the album's shapeshifting sound with a surrealist but emotionally potent form of lyrical storytelling. "It's about a girl who's trying to escape the world she's stuck in-this glitter world that looks so good on the surface, but it's not where she's meant to be," says Kar? in discussing the album's concept. "There's a song called 'Jetpackstelpan,' or 'Jetpack Girl,' where she leaves the world on a jetpack and flies away to the moon, and she's never coming back again." Opening on the kaleidoscopic rhythms and rowdy call-and-response vocals of "Fullkomi?" ("Perfect"), ? Glimmerheimi brings that narrative to frenetic and dazzling life, ultimately closing out on "Skr?msli? er a? n? ??r" ("The monster is getting you"): a serpentine and strangely mesmerizing epic whose swirling textures, otherworldly vocals, and sparse yet complex guitar tones illuminate the immense scope and depth of GR?A's artistry.
Description
Remastered and first worldwide release (previously only limited availability in Iceland)
Since first bursting onto the global punk scene in 2018, Icelandic trio GR?A have thrilled audiences across the world by fully embracing an unruly freedom. Made up of sisters Hrafnhildur Einars Mar?ud?ttir (aka Hrabba, age 22) and Kar?l?na Einars Mar?ud?ttir (aka Kar?, age 20) and their childhood friend Fr??a Bj?rg P?tursd?ttir (also 22), the Reykjav?k-bred band merge elements of post-punk and noise-rock and art-pop with absolute abandon, arriving at an explosive yet magnificently arranged sound unlike any other. A local favorite, the Icelandic government has recently been sponsoring worldwide travel to share GR?A with the rest of the world and in 2023 they have played shows around the world including in UK, Western and Eastern Europe as well as USA dates including Washington DC, Seattle, Chicago and New York City. They have recently recorded an in studio performance at KEXP which will be broadcast worldwide in January 2024 and more worldwide touring is planned for early 2024 to support the vinyl and CD releases.
Listing iconoclasts like Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, and Bikini Kill among their longtime inspirations, the Icelandic punk band GR?A pursued their experimental impulses with more intensity and confidence on ? Glimmerheimi, matching the album's shapeshifting sound with a surrealist but emotionally potent form of lyrical storytelling. "It's about a girl who's trying to escape the world she's stuck in-this glitter world that looks so good on the surface, but it's not where she's meant to be," says Kar? in discussing the album's concept. "There's a song called 'Jetpackstelpan,' or 'Jetpack Girl,' where she leaves the world on a jetpack and flies away to the moon, and she's never coming back again." Opening on the kaleidoscopic rhythms and rowdy call-and-response vocals of "Fullkomi?" ("Perfect"), ? Glimmerheimi brings that narrative to frenetic and dazzling life, ultimately closing out on "Skr?msli? er a? n? ??r" ("The monster is getting you"): a serpentine and strangely mesmerizing epic whose swirling textures, otherworldly vocals, and sparse yet complex guitar tones illuminate the immense scope and depth of GR?A's artistry.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Silva Thordardottir
Magnus Johann
GR?A
GR?A
GR?A
