Reykjavík Grapevine - 19.07.2019, Blaðsíða 2

Reykjavík Grapevine - 19.07.2019, Blaðsíða 2
Elín Elísabet is an illus- trator and cartoonist born and raised in Borgarnes. At the tender age of 15, Elín moved to Reykjavík and hasn’t looked back, except for the annual springtime impulse to move someplace quiet and keep chickens. Elín likes folk music, stationery, seal vid- eos, the country of Ireland, and eggs. Hannah Jane Cohen is based out of Ice- land by way of New York. An alumni of Columbia University, Hannah has lived on five continents and speaks three languages fluently. Her visionary work is known for expand- ing the definitions of emotion, introspec- tion, and above all else, taste. John Rogers is an Englishman who first joined Grapevine as a music writer, later graduating to Managing Editor. A constant traveller and a lover of art, culture, food & night- life, he edits our Best of Reykjavík, Best of Iceland, and Iceland Airwaves sister publications. His first book, “Real Life,” was published in 2014. Shruthi Basappa traded the warmth of Indian summers for Iceland's Arctic winds. She's a food enthusiast masquer- ading as an architect at Sei Studio, and loves obsessive attention to detail. When not leading our Best of Reykjavík food panel, she can be found trying to become a Michelin restaurant inspector. Sveinbjörn Pálsson is our Art Director. He's responsible for the design of the magazine and the cover photography. When he's not work- ing here, he DJs as Terrordisco, hosts the Funkþátturinn radio show, or sits at a table in a Laugarda- lur café, drinking copious amounts of coffee and thinking about fonts. Josie Gaitens is a Grapevine intern who is also a freelance arts project coor- dinator, musician and writer from the Scottish Highlands. She was once errone- ously referred to as the Queen of Scot- land by a Malaysian newspaper and has been falsely using that title ever since. Andie Fontaine has lived in Iceland since 1999 and has been reporting since 2003. They were the first foreign-born mem- ber of the Icelandic Parliament, in 2007- 08, an experience they recommend for anyone who wants to experience a workplace where colleagues work tire- lessly to undermine each other. Felix Robertson is a theology student from the UK who is currently on a gap year and is trying, with varying degrees of success, to ‘find’ himself in the frigid wastes of the north. He likes classical music, long walks and really dead lan- guages. He's one of our current interns. Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir is a national treasure. One of Iceland's leading illustra- tors, when she's not drawing in her unique style, she's the front-woman of Icelandic electro- pop supergroup FM Belfast. Her comic strip Lóaboratorium appears every issue on page 8, and is also available as a daily dose on her Twitter. First 16: Woman At War; Yurts Not Bombs12: WAB Rises From The Ashes Of WOW14: Child Deportation Laws Under Scrutiny 24: Hermigervill's Dystopian Iceland 34: Hátiðni Festival Takes Over Borðeyri 38: Eight Icelandic Movie Classics Reviewed During the making of this issue, it came as a bit of a surprise to us in the Grapevine office to discover that our new cover stars, Of Monsters and Men, are Iceland’s most listened-to band. By the metrics of Spotify, they have 5.3 million monthly listeners, making their month-to- month fanbase more than double Sigur Rós (953k) and Björk (1.5m) combined. By this single but significant metric, Of Monsters and Men are the most popular group that Iceland has ever produced. It’s an interesting development. Since the 1990s, Iceland’s international musical reputation has been touted for experimentation, sublimity, sincerity and eccentricity. Whilst wildly differ- ent in many respects, success stories like Björk, Sigur Rós, múm, Ólafur Arnalds, and the late Jóhann Jóhansson can comfortably sit on a Venn diagram connected by their overlapping interest in expressing a sometimes ephemeral but always palpable sense of wonder. But this appealingly neat picture was never the whole story. Iceland has a hidden history of homegrown music—one that’s been explored by the restless musical mind of Hermiger- vill (P. 24), who has smashed, sliced, and stitched back together samples of the most obscure Icelandic releases imaginable into quixotic homebrewed dance music. From black metal to coldwave (P. 27), techno, trap and— more recently—a resurgent DIY indie movement (P. 34), the local scene is teeming with diverse and interesting artists to discover. Check out our latest selections (P. 8), and the playlist made for us by DJ and master atmosphere creator Z (P. 28), for some fresh meat and deep cuts. You can read Of Monsters and Men’s whirlwind success story, and find out about their new album, on page 19. And you never know—maybe they’ll be a gateway drug to Iceland’s wider scene for their millions of fans. We hope you’ll agree as you leaf through the pages of this issue that the atten- tion would be richly deserved. JR Valur Grettisson is away. EDITORIAL A Gateway Drug COVER ARTWORK: Kosmonatka ABOUT THE ARTWORK: A close collaboration between Kosmonatka and our Art Director, this cover has been months in the making. Styled after ‘50s horror movie posters and comic books, it is a fairly literal read on the band's name, set to visuals that represent the theme of their new album “Fever Dream.” Look out for Natka's work decorating a lot of icelandic indie music artwork. 45: Chinese Fine Dining At... Fine 46: Fox Spotting In Hornstrandir 48: We Climb Iceland's Highest Mountain Find us: #intotheglacier www.intotheglacier.is Daily departures from Húsafell, Reykjavík and Þingvellir National Park Experience the amazing Langjökull glacier tunnels
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