Benni Hemm Hemm
Morr Music
INDIE
BENEDIKT H. HERMANNSSON aka BENNI HEMM HEMM's self titled debut album collected both the 'Best Album' + the 'Best Newcomer' gong at the Icelandic Music Awards.
Blessed with living in the vodka-pickled tundra of 21st Century Iceland, Benedikt and the group have a rich cultural heritage to call upon, with the contemporary musical success of fellow countrymen - SIGUR ROS and BJORK,
Opening through a rattle of percussion and thrumming acoustic guitar, the appropriately titled 'Beginning End' kicks off the eponymous debut with the kind of dribble-inducing enthusiasm usually reserved for kid's birthday parties. Brimming with indie-guitar goodness, things are cranked up a gear with the introduction of parping horns, soaring strings and a batch of sugar-blasted atmospherics that brings to mind the joyous exuberance of the ARCADE FIRE.
'I Can Love You In A Wheelchair', meanwhile, is an ebbing folk song that matches the likes of THE TINDERSTICKS in its blunt yet heartfelt predilection, taking a difficult subject then injecting it with a wry wit that is caustically effective.
There is also, 'Til Eru' pressing the rich austere and shimmer of their beautiful language into action for a galloping charge through Icelandic-country.
The steel guitar pock-marks of 'Fight' hint at a fog-shrouded desert or glacier and finishes with 'Sweaty In The Sunshine' that works up a real head of steam through percussive bursts that press the whole band into frenzied action. Bloody brilliant stuff!
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Beginning End
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Beygia Og Beygia
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The Doomed The Damned
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Fight
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I Can Love You In A Wheelchair
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Ku-ui-po
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Labbie
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Tileru Frae
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Glistern
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Sweat In The Sunshine
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Sumarnott
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Beginning End
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