This is only a single but feels more substantial. Not a three minute missive but an elaborate seven minute mini-opus.
Written by multi-instrumentalist Allister Kellaway after relocating from Falmouth to South London via Brighton, it serves as a teaser for a forthcoming EP entitled Four Movements.
Kellaway was previously a solo artist but is now recording with old Uni chums Henry Nicholson (guitar/keys) and Louis Crump (bass/keys) with Ed Bernez (drums/pads) .
There is no direct mention of the Icelandic capital in the song but presumably the piece was inspired by the idea of Reykjavik with references to gold and the sun standing in for fire and ice.
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One of the lines from the impressionistic, and mostly indecipherable, lyrics states: "We build the world from shapes inside our mind" so stick that in your volcano and smoke it!
Obscure, enigmatic, meandering and replete with complex time signatures, this is quite possibly bombastic nonsense but the saving grace is that it is presented with a certain panache. On this basis it is intriguing enough to want to hear and know more.
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