Browse by Artist: FM BELFAST

Artist:	FM BELFAST
Title:	Underwear
Label:	A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	ANOST 030EP

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.

Artist:	FM BELFAST
Title:	How To Make Friends
Label:	KIMI (ICELAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	KRCD 012CD

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.

Artist:	FM BELFAST
Title:	Don't Want To Sleep
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MORR 105CD

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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