“I love the way she is looking at me | like I was a fruit hanging in her tree
the way she moves her hips | the way she wets her lips
I love the way that girl is looking at me”
Rockin’ straight out of 101 Reykjavík, Mugison desperately needs to break the North-American market. Like the Icelandic language, most can’t even begin to decipher the influences of Örn Elías Guðmundsson’s creation — besides similarities to their touring partners, QOTSA, this all sounds unique to me. Listen to him wail away over that glacier-traversing rhythm and refreshingly comfortable organ in “Mugiboogie.” Forget your typical shoe-gaze Icelandic-gone-American post-rock — this is where it’s at!
I had the opportunity to check these guys out live at NASA in downtown Reykjavík, summer of 2008. Turns out that I happened to catch a bit of a rarity: there were two drum sets on stage when I entered the ultra-hip bar. Mugison had recruited a touring drummer for their Canadian tour while the recording drummer welcomed a newborn in the motherland — the time had come to return to the land of fire and ice and they figured, what the hell, if the Dead can do it, so can we. One of the better live performances I’ve ever had the pleasure of catching.
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They opened for a Queen’s of the Stone age set last spring in Hamilton. Honestly blew my socks off, stole the show. Bought the album and got it signed afterwards too.
Every performer, is a preacher
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