An Icelandic band that found international ears with 'Way Down We Go' and a sound built on blues grit.
For a quick sense of their range, listen to 'Pretty Boy Floyd' and then 'Vor Í Vaglaskógi'. They're not the same song.
They broke through with 'Way Down We Go' in 2014, a song that got international play and even faced some plagiarism chatter a few years later. Their sound leans on blues and rock, with Jökull Júlíusson's voice doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Songs like 'Pretty Boy Floyd' and 'Vor Í Vaglaskógi' show they can shift from driving rock to quieter, folk-leaning moments.
They formed in Iceland around 2012 and kept at it through lean early years. 'Way Down We Go' broke through in 2014, leading to the album 'A/B' in 2016 and later work like 'Surface Sounds' in 2021.
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