Icelandic Little Talks, Big Music!
Of Monsters and Men (preferred notation) is the band encompassing Nanna Bryndis Hilmarsdottir. From Iceland and extremely exciting, certainly for fans of Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons, School Is Cool... that exuberant blown-up sound.
Together since 2010 and apparently instant winners of the local Musiktilraunir competition plus, of course, extra attention too at the ever impressive Iceland Airwaves festival.
'Little Talks' is the first, immediately much talked-about, single with a hugely playful clip. But 'OMaM' also avidly venture into songs about surviving in the wilderness, fighting with bears, walruses with a house on their back...
More of that fantastic and appealingly mad music on the Of Monsters and Men debut: 'My Head Is An Animal', here too in spring 2012 via Universal. And, there you go, live in the ABClub on Wednesday 25 April!