I am sitting here listening to Sin Fang Bous debut album “Clangour” (Morr Music), and it’s one of those precious moments where the music embraces you and you don’t want it to stop. It’s a wonderful album, – a really interesting album, and it’s so fun to listen to. It sounds like Sindri has gone berserk in the studio, and played around with everything he could find, – allowed his ideas to flow freely, – not limited by any boundaries at all. It’s experimental, but definitely highly accessible, very melodic and very much a pop-album.

Sin Fang Bous is Sindri Mar Sigfusson from the Icelandic band Seabear, and while this is his debut as Sin Fang Bous, it is not his debut making/releasing music on his own. Seabear was originally his one-man project, and he self-released his brilliant Seabear debut “Singing Arc” (2004) on his own. Seabear became a huge (and probably growing) band with 7 members, and the Sin Fang Bous album was recorded and self-produced in Sindri’s home studio while Seabear was working on their new album.

The music of Sin Fang Bous has a lot in common with Seabear, of course, but it’s far more electronic, more upbeat, and while the last Seabear album was heavily inspired by folk-music from the 60s-and 70s, this album is definitely forward looking. At the same time, there are LOTS of acoustic instruments, field recordings, “found sounds” folk-inspirations, and a very organic and “real” sound on the album. This is warm, friendly music, and it might just be one of my favourites of the year.

Brilliant cover art too, made by the wonderful Julia Guther (who also made one of the “A Good Crop” covers for us).

“Clangour” will be released on vinyl and digital downloads on December 5th, and the cd will be available in February. ITunes has a pre-release of the album right now, so get over there and get it!

When you have bought the album, get over to They Shoot Music, Don’t They and watch Seabear’s recent live performance in a street market in Vienna.

Here’s a track from the album: