HJALTALIN + City Reverb + The Ark People + Kat and the Half Step Uncles

Fri 23rd Jan 2009

The ICMP & Stiff Promotions present...
MishMash!
with
HJALTALIN
+ City Reverb
+ The Ark People
+ Kat & The Half Step Uncles

+

£5 concessions
£6 advance, via WeGotTickets and Ticketweb
at ICMP reception at 1a Dyne Road, London NW6 7XG
£7 door

7.45 doors
8.25 Kat and The Half Step Uncles (25)
9.05 The Ark People (30)
9.50 City Reverb (30)
10.35 Hjaltalín (45)

 

Hjaltalín are Iceland's newest export. Having been nominated for five of 2008's Icelandic Music Awards they went on to win Best Songwriter - Högni Egilsson - and The Brightest Hope.

Hjaltalín are from Reykjavik, a band as promising as any of the other beautiful and eclectic artists the country has thrown up. With eight members, it's difficult to know whether to call them a small orchestra, a mutated and overgrown rock band or something else entirely. Besides the regular guitar, bass and drums, the band also comprises piano, accordion, bassoon, clarinet, cello and a violin, complementing the exquisite lilt of Högni and Sigga's vocals.

The band are currently topping the charts in Iceland with 'Thu komst vid hjartad í mér', and their debut album 'Sleepdrunk Seasons', released to great acclaim in Iceland last December, was produced by Benni Hemm Hemm and Gunni Tynes of múm. In Iceland Hjaltalín have played with artist such Jens Lekman, Akron/Family, Danielson, Annuals and Bloc Party.

This unique group of instrumentalists form an allegiance which already has a very solid fan base amongst both critics and the public on home ground. The rest of the world lies in wait and will surely be theirs in due course...

"Euphoric chamber pop" – NME

"Hjaltalín purvey melodic indie rock with a conspicuous bassoon, cello, three part brass section and usual rhythm section allowing them to alternate between full bloodied rock basslines and the soaring appeal of Sufjan Steven's heraldic approach. Epic promise." - Clash Magazine On 'Sleepdrunk Seasons'

"What makes Hjaltalin ooze with potential, and more importantly, sound nothing like any of their revered countrymen at all is their unflinching knack at being able to craft both winsome pop tunes alongside audaciously experimental arrangements with seemingly effortless ease." – Drowned in Sound.

"This is pure pop brilliance." – New-Noise.net

"The Icelandic collective's UK debut is cheeky and breezy - like fresh air in London, like the sound of the morning thaw" – Plan B

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