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This will be super good – last year at S\u0175n, Reardon Smith played a blinder Brian, with Young Marble Giants in particular a shiny treat. Also: their toilets are posh and nice. I have photos. M\u00fam you should love too: twinkling, creepy half electronic cosiness, just right for some ponce reviewer to compare it with elves or snowstorms. They’re dead good, I promise.<\/p>\n
S\u0175n presents \/ yn cyflwyno…<\/strong><\/p>\n M\u00fam<\/strong><\/p>\n + Gravenhurst<\/strong><\/p>\n Reardon Smith Theatre Two years after the release of their last album, eccentric pop maestros M\u00fam return with their fifth album proper, simply named Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know, a flickering candle of an album. The album is a much more laid back album than m\u00fam’s most recent outings, more relaxed and quietly sad, often recalling sand running through fingers or ripples on a lake. And to an even greater extent than there previous albums, Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know is an ode to the light in it’s different shapes, from a fading bulb to the blinding sun.<\/p>\n Sometimes the music sounds naively utopic, but always manages to stay effortless and pure. As usual, the songs are brimming with unusual sounds, this time much of the songs revolve around a lightly prepared piano, hammered dulcimer, a string quartet, marimbas, guitars, ukuleles and in the background of a few of the songs one can hear \u00d6rvar’s parent’s parakeet singing with the piano.<\/p>\n The album was recorded in countless different places in four different countries, although most of it was done in m\u00fam’s native Iceland. Gunnar \u00d6rn Tynes moved to a cabin in the countryside where much of the album sprang to life, but as always m\u00fam have a hard time staying put and recorded in both Estonia and Finland. In Estonia borrowed a beautiful, many hundred year old house in Leigo, a place of hundreds of lakes, where they wrote new songs and recorded with the estonian Suisap\u00e4isa Mixed choir<\/p>\n Much of the music was hatched in the middle of Iceland’s recent political turmoil and uprising. The Icelandic government was forced to resign after intermittent civil unrest and the constant banging of pots and pans. By stretching the the imagination, one can imagine a link between the turbulent political situation and the serene idealism hidden in the music.<\/p>\n The band or group or collective or whatever people want to call it consists on this album of Gunnar \u00d6rn Tynes and \u00d6rvar \u00de\u00f3reyjarson Sm\u00e1rason, Eir\u00edkur Orri \u00d3lafsson (trumpet \/ piano\/ keyboards\/ string arrangements), Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir (cello\/vocals), Sigurlaug G\u00edslad\u00f3ttir (Vocals\/ ukulele\/ various), R\u00f3bert Reynisson (guitars\/ukulele’s) and Finlander, Samuli Kosminen (drums \/ percussion). H\u00f6gni Egilsson, also joins in a few songs, sharing songwriting duties on one song and arranging choir for two others and Gu\u00f0bj\u00f6rg Hl\u00edn Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir plays violin.<\/p>\n This is the first time in the band’s history that they’ve played in Wales. To make it even more special, S\u0175n returns to the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff after opening last year’s S\u0175n Festival in the Reardon Smith Theatre with that magical performance from Young Marble Giants.<\/p>\n S\u0175n, M\u00fam and The National Museum of Wales. A very very very special evening in the capital of Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This will be super good – last year at S\u0175n, Reardon Smith played a blinder Brian, with Young Marble Giants in particular a shiny treat. Also: their toilets are posh and nice. I have photos. M\u00fam you should love too: twinkling, creepy half electronic cosiness, just right for some ponce reviewer to compare it with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[469,729,728,498],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preview","tag-cardiff","tag-mum","tag-national-museum-of-wales","tag-swn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNational Museum Cardiff
\nPark Place, Cardiff
\nMonday 17th August
\nDoors 7.00pm. Please arrive prompt
\n\u00a316.50 advance from Spillers Records
\nwww.wegottickets.com\/event\/51066
\n<\/a>Ticketline (02920 230130)
\nwww.seetickets.com<\/a><\/p>\n