Penned by Rolling Stone as “Disclosure attending Bela Lugosi’s funeral”, the Icelandic band are about as weird as their name. They started off as techno duo Captain Fufani, until the theft of their master computer lost the entirety of their unreleased music. They followed this by adding live instruments and shedding the “Captain” part of the name (which apparently got left behind “at a rave in Cologne”). Their venture in this different style of music has already seen success, including the praise of Damon Albarn and The Vaccines, who they recently supported on tour.

Few More Days To Go opens with ‘Now’, a confused track as the downcast vocals and the heavy blend of live and electronic instruments contrast with the seemingly romantic lyrics. The album seems to be full of contradictions, ‘Circus Life’ conjures an image of a horror show with seven minutes of gloriously moody rock and equally sultry vocals. Singer Kaktus hauntingly chants “the show must go on”, a line that becomes increasingly tormented as he repeats “and on and on and on”, the mundane and repetitive aspects of everyday life leaking into the music. The synth in ‘Plastic People’ feels reminiscent to the soundtrack of Pacman. It perfectly encapsulates the stress of gaming and as the song goes, the paranoid lyrics could definitely draw links to the feeling of being chased in a videogame gone wrong.

Overall, Few More Days to Go is an electro-rock album full of gloomy psychedelia and sinister atmosphere. It definitely wasn’t intended to relax the listener. However, it is full of great songs and even if the mood is very morose, it promises great things for their future.

Polly Hatcher