![]() “For the Sin Fang album, I was writing the songs as I was recording them,” he reveals. Seabear also road-tested many of its songs before recording, which Sigfússon says was not the case with his new material. We just met in a rehearsal room and played songs until they were ready, and then we recorded them.” “The way we did this album was just like a normal band. “Seabear kind of started like Sin Fang is now, because it started as my solo-project thing, where I did everything and stuff like that, but now it’s a full band,” he says. In fact, Clangour provides a pretty good indication of how Seabear’s first full-length, 2007’s The Ghost That Carried Us Away, might have turned out if Sigfússon had been left to his own devices. ![]() ![]() I’m not very good at those things, to be honest, but I kind of wanted to try it.” I mean, I have lots of friends who play, so I could have gotten a really talented drummer or a really good bass player or something to play, but instead I did it myself. “One of the rules was that I was going to play everything myself and see what happens, and to kind of see if I could do it. “I had a few rules for this album,” says Sigfússon, reached in Reykjavík, where he’s on his way home from a band practice. Unlike Sea Bear’s organic brand of indie folk, Sin Fang Bous’s sound-as heard on its debut album, Clangour-is a bit of an oddity, centred on Sigfússon’s facility with classic pop hooks but augmented by lo-fi glitchcore beeps, samples, and programmed beats. ![]() And the band Seabear is led by singer-guitarist Sindri Már Sigfússon, who also happens to be the lone member of Sin Fang Bous. Amiina, for example, is Sigur Rós’s de facto string section. Not surprisingly, there’s a fair amount of crossover and collaboration between the musicians in Iceland’s capital. For a city with a population of just over 120,000, Reykjavík has given rise to a seemingly inordinate number of top-tier musical acts, from Bjí¶rk and Sigur Rós to múm and amiina. ![]()
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