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Iceland Airwaves.
With Iceland managing to get COVID largely under control, it seems as though it s full steam ahead for this year s Iceland Airwaves.
Returning to a host of venues in Reykjavik, new additions to the line up include BRIT nominee Arlo Parks.
Elsewhere, you can soak up sets from Smoothboi Ezra, South London s own Wu-Lu, and newcomers such as Francis of Delirium, Countess Malaise, and Aron Can.
Here s a full list of new additions.
Arlo Parks (UK), Aron Can, Axel Flóvent, Bartees Strange (US), Countess Malaise, Denise Chaila (IE), Eydís Evensen, Francis of Delirium (LU), Holdgervlar, Inspector Spacetime, KAMARA (NO), Kælan Mikla, KeiyaA (US), Kristin Sesselja, Laufey, Magnús Jóhann, Ouse, Power Paladin, Sad Night Dynamite (UK), Smoothboi Ezra (IE), Snny, Superserious, TootArd (Golan Heights), The Vintage Caravan, Tuys (LU), Tyson (UK), Vök, Wu-Lu (UK)
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MODERN CLASSIC PROG ROCK: The Vintage Caravan is an anomaly in that the trio from Álftanes, Iceland is one of the more conventional sounding bands to emerge from the land that prizes oddball individuality that the rest of the world happens to latch onto.
Monuments sees the trio five albums in and taking their classic rock (Led Zeppelin, Rush, Deep Purple, Cream, Black Sabbath) and seismic metal influences (High on Fire, Mastodon, The Sword) and ratcheting up the mix with improved hooks, anthemic choruses, and other conventional tools that result in a record that possesses more infectious qualities, more for the listener to hang their hat on, more for listeners to come back to, and, most importantly, more to draw the listener back in.
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BY KEVIN STEWART-PANKO
Coming off a triumphant album cycle for 2018’s
Gateways that saw the finest power trio from the suburbs of Reykjavik tour the Old World as headliners, then as direct support to Opeth, 2020 was originally designed to keep the momentum churning with a new album, a new deal with Napalm Records, and more bolt loosening and scaffold rattling as they conquered stages here, there, and everywhere.
It’s an increasingly tired and frustrating story, but we all know what happened to anyone who had plans to do anything in 2020. Still, with the high-octane and infectious psychedelic/progressive hard rock of