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Island Broadcast is the fourth LP from FM Belfast. Broadcasting from their home on a remote island, you can sense that the tracks are personal. The album has 11 tracks, 11 intimate stories to dance to. It's like you've been invited to a Cabin Fever Dance Party in their living room. The lyrics are about bliss, euphoria, trying to be a human in this strange world, friendship, of loss and growing up. The first song of the album "All My Power" deals with guilt. There are two characters in the song. One is a blamer while the other one is being blamed. "Follow Me" song is about a person who is no longer blind to the world around her. It's about taking responsibility for your choices. Being kind is not the same as being naive. "Enjoy" is about not watching the world go by without having a good time. The night is the best time for procrastination, you can hide in the dark and nobody can see you waste your life. "Up All Night" captures this feeling. Like many songs on the album, "Agent" is about holding your head above water in this strange world. It's easy to get blindsided and lost, but who's going to speak up for the weak if you don't do it. The lyrics for "You're So Pretty" originally come from a short story written by Lóa. They are about getting old without maturing. The song is about being restless and broke. "Streamers" is a quiet love-story about having found the person you want to sit next to for the rest of your life and watch crappy TV together. "Leave A Mark" is a personal reminder to do something about the life you are given and not waste time; Even if things are not great today, there is always tomorrow. It doesn't have to be important, it could just be writing your name on a wall. "Fearless Youth" is a nostalgic song about being a fearless adolescent and the friends you used to have. The lyrics are written by Örvar who's also a founding member of MúM. "Strobe" is an atmospheric track. It's made for people who want to dance in a euphoric bliss. "The Game" tells you to resist the power of bad people and bad governments. There's a big game being played and you don't need to participate, you can resist.
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WCR 002CD
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Island Broadcast is the fourth LP from FM Belfast. Broadcasting from their home on a remote island, you can sense that the tracks are personal. The album has 11 tracks, 11 intimate stories to dance to. It's like you've been invited to a Cabin Fever Dance Party in their living room. The lyrics are about bliss, euphoria, trying to be a human in this strange world, friendship, of loss and growing up. The first song of the album "All My Power" deals with guilt. There are two characters in the song. One is a blamer while the other one is being blamed. "Follow Me" song is about a person who is no longer blind to the world around her. It's about taking responsibility for your choices. Being kind is not the same as being naive. "Enjoy" is about not watching the world go by without having a good time. The night is the best time for procrastination, you can hide in the dark and nobody can see you waste your life. "Up All Night" captures this feeling. Like many songs on the album, "Agent" is about holding your head above water in this strange world. It's easy to get blindsided and lost, but who's going to speak up for the weak if you don't do it. The lyrics for "You're So Pretty" originally come from a short story written by Lóa. They are about getting old without maturing. The song is about being restless and broke. "Streamers" is a quiet love-story about having found the person you want to sit next to for the rest of your life and watch crappy TV together. "Leave A Mark" is a personal reminder to do something about the life you are given and not waste time; Even if things are not great today, there is always tomorrow. It doesn't have to be important, it could just be writing your name on a wall. "Fearless Youth" is a nostalgic song about being a fearless adolescent and the friends you used to have. The lyrics are written by Örvar who's also a founding member of MúM. "Strobe" is an atmospheric track. It's made for people who want to dance in a euphoric bliss. "The Game" tells you to resist the power of bad people and bad governments. There's a big game being played and you don't need to participate, you can resist.
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Andri Snær Magnason, three-time recipient of the Icelandic Literary Prize, says he has to attend a FM Belfast concert at least once every six months, according to doctor's orders. It is worth mentioning that Andri Snær is not a doctor, but his father is a doctor; his grandfather was a doctor; his sister is no less than a neurosurgeon. Should we, the common, soot-stained masses, doubt the professional medical advice of an entire family? Thankfully, we don't have to, because FM Belfast takes its role in the public's health very seriously. Because the members of the band are just like you and me -- they are a part of us. They pay off their mortgages, take their kids to day care, and in the evening boil potatoes. They don't always have enough to fill the gas tank or perhaps don't even have a car to begin with. They've even been known to play basketball in tattered sneakers. The band's struggle for survival, and that of the Icelandic nation as a whole, is wearisome and tedious. But in the end, there is good news, because FM Belfast knows the antidote -- the recipe for making the struggle a happy one and for patching the holes in tattered sneakers. Because as the poet said: "Smile and the world smiles back." Here, the kids of FM Belfast release their third full-length album, Brighter Days -- because, as the title suggests, there are brighter times ahead. And if not, we'll make brighter times. FM Belfast are doing their part in carrying out the gospel, armed with a smile on their lips and a seductive dance step at their feet. They will travel and rock the excited club-nations of Europe. Later, they will finish off with a tour of the festival circuit around the continent -- and thank goodness, as everything is a mess there with the EU, as we all know. The only thing that can save them is perhaps dried fish and butter, or just dancing along to FM Belfast.
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MORR 109EP
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After dropping FM Belfast's second album Don't Want to Sleep (MORR 105CD/LP), Morr Music now delivers a remix package for "Vertigo." It's one of the album's most thrilling tracks, maybe due to its euphoric, MGMT-ish refrain and the cutting-in horn section. This 12" features the original version as well as four remixes from Borko, Diamond Rings, Ra Ra Riot, and Pink Ganter.
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MORR 105CD
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This is the second studio-length album from FM Belfast. For the past four years, this Icelandic electro-pop group have been perfecting the art of reading an audience and connecting with it, using their steadily-growing skills to hone a music that catches easily, yet runs deep; an art of performing that can -- and usually does -- induce unique and euphoric states in large crowds of people, or just in your headphones. It is harsh and technical, warm and embracing and organic, thoughtful and giddy and cool and inclusive. Those who have ever seen them perform or listened to their debut, How To Make Friends (KRCD 012CD/ KRLP 012LP), can and will verify this. Don't Want To Sleep is a logical conclusion to two years of making friends and taking in experiences and sounds and adventure. It is also a worthy successor to their debut, a natural progression that retains its predecessor's spirit and builds upon it while exploring new territories. The songs retain the bouncy and joyful spirit of How To Make Friends, yet veer off into territories that the band have hitherto left unexplored. There are slow songs and introspective ones; calm, drifting meditations mixed with calls to arms and potential dancefloor workouts. Tracks like the beautiful "Noise" and "We Fall" depict serene dreamscapes that still burst with power and rhythm. The understated "Winter," with its anxious bite and underlying warmth, captures the essence of the overpowering Icelandic winter in its suffocating embrace. "Vertigo" entices and enthralls and "American" bops, gallops and is impossible not to sing along to. It is rare that an album will make you want to dance while possessing the ability to lull you to sleep (you'll have dreams of dancing). Don't Want To Sleep is such an album, a friend in early morning and late at night. The songs were written and recorded by FM Belfast (guests include Retro Stefson's Unnsteinn Manúel, Borko's Borko and mighty trumpeter Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson), produced and recorded by Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson and mixed by Kristinn Sturluson, Gunnar Örn Tynes and Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson. Helmut Erler mastered the thing at Dubplates & Mastering, and the cover was designed by the band and Bobby Breiðholt.
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To celebrate the signing of the wonderful Icelandic supergroup FM Belfast, A Number Of Small Things presents "Underwear," the biggest hit from their debut album How To Make Friends (KRCD 012CD/KRLP 012LP) with an exclusive additional version that was recorded live in their backyard and a version from Prins Póló. "Underwear" perfectly captures FM Belfast's carefree and enthusiastic attitude and provides a glimpse into the joy surrounding everything the band gets up to.
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This is the first studio-length album from Iceland's hot-buzz electro-dance band FM Belfast. FM Belfast makes joyful electronic dance music interlaced with fun and good fortune, with an inability to stand still or sit. The band started out as a duo on Christmas 2005 when Arni R. Hlodversson and Loa H. Hjalmtysdottir made a song as a present for their friends. What was initially thought of as a studio concept became a live band in the summer of 2006 when Arni and Loa performed at an art opening in a cave on the Faeroe Islands. Later that year, Arni Vilhjalmsson and Orvar Th. Smarason joined the band. In October of 2006 they played their first full concert at the Iceland Airwaves festival in Reykjavik. The band first released this debut album locally in Iceland and have sold 5,000 albums already. This is angular, minimal electro-beats and catchy synths with male and female vocals in abstract, broken English that you will simply not be able to resist on the dancefloor.
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