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The new album by Jakobinarina "The First Crusade" is out now. You can download it for only £5.00 from the link below...
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Jakobinarina have recorded a live session for MTV! You can watch it by clicking on this wonderful banner...
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No nonsense, spirited punk rock that explodes in your face. This band are hot and exciting property. Artrocker
Coming over like the Hives let loose in the sweetshop, they're all pop melodies and whip snap quick guitar riffs mixed into a gorgeous mush... Gigwise
Aged between 16 and 20 and bristling with punk attitude, Jakobinarina are one Icelandic band that will never be called quirky or ethereal. Observer Magazine
sniper like, witty punk anthems…these boys take popular western pop references and stick an icy stalagmite right through the heart of it. i-D
a glorious clatter akin the The Cribs or even Blur at their most lo-fi. NME
with their frantic wall-of-sound and wry wit, these six teens look like a wise investment. OMM
glorious bouncy garage-racket. The Fly
this is the band that threatens to beat the Brits at their own game. i-D
demented electro-pop delivered by a robot from 1991...pretty essential. NME
fast paced pop, punk guitars and memorable hooks. Artrocker
Free Jakobinarina DVD!
Hello all, finally some details about the album and single coming your way soon.
His Lyrics Are Disastrous is the new single and it is out 24th September on CD, 7" and Digital Download. The 7" is a limited edition and each one is numbered, so they're collectable and should be cherished. And the CD and 7" come with fold out Jakobinarina posters!
(for the free DVD)
His Lyrics Are Disastrous Video
Here's the new video for His Lyrics Are Disastrous, it comes out on 24th September. Enjoy.
PS. Tourdates are up now for September, October and November
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The single is available on 7" (limited edition with fold out poster), Enhanced CD (featuring the two amazing videos for 'Jesus' and 'This Is An Advertisement') plus a fold out poster.
Get your hands on a copy from HMV by clicking the link at the bottom of this news item.
The single is taken from the forthcoming album 'The First Crusade' out 24th September.
The video for the single is currently enjoying spins on MTV2 and the track is SINGLE OF THE WEEK on both XFM (John Kennedy) and BBC6 Music (Steve Lamaqc Drivetime show)
HMV order link:
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About Jakobinarina.....
Yes, seventeen and fucked off feels much the same wherever you are, Iceland, Isle of Dogs or Idaho. (Jakobinarina are from the former). It has, however, been a long, long while since anyone has captured the sheer thwarted energy of being a mannish boy with the vim, vigour and sheer gusto of the six boys comprising this combustible young outfit.
Formed out of the classroom when they were just 14, Jakobinarina come from the ashes of the straight ahead punk band Lufthansa, which comprised half of Jako's line-up - guitarist and main songwriter, Hallberg Hallbergsson, drummer Sigurdur Salvertsen and vocalist Gunnar Bergmann. Proud owners of a guitar and drumkit, both of which were confirmation presents, the seeds of Jakobinarina were sown.
It was at the South-by-South West festival in Austin where the band had the time of their young lives and first discovered the high-flown joys of pulling their pants down for the camera. In Texas the band were exposed to a wider range of the international record industry and were picked up by Rough Trade, who in the summer of 2006 released the first Jakobinarina EP, "His Lyrics Are Disastrous", recorded with Sigur Ros producer Ken Thomas.
Dates in Britain followed, with Jako touring with Love Is All and Brian Johnstown Massacre. Here it became clear just how divisive Jakobinarina's sound would become. People either get them or they don't; their coruscating electric guitars and paint-stripping vocal attack either seeming like a blast of clear teenage energy or too, too much in a scene that tends towards the sensitive and musically whimsical.
In the Jako=good camp some pretty impressive names lent their support to the young Icelanders, including such unobvious dance allies as the Klaxons and Simian Mobile Disco, and in the States alternative heroes Islands (ex-Unicorns). For Jako this is perfect synergy, since despite hating almost everything else going on indie-wise, they love these bands. "don't think there is anyone like us," says Hallberg with understatement and a high degree of accuracy.
After another triumphant Airwaves show, this time at the festival's biggest venue, the band were hungrily picked up by Regal/Parlophone early in 2007, and recorded their debut album. "The First Crusade", with producer Stan Kybert and engineer Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys).
"I think the album should be used as a reference work for how great albums can be," says Hallberg without irony. "I love it and am very, very proud of it, but I wouldn't want a billion people to listen to it. I just want it to be our music made by us for us."
It might be a little too late for that, I'm afraid, boys...
Jakobinarina are:
Hallberg Daði Hallbergsson (guitar)
Sigurður Möller Sívertsen (drums)
Heimir Gestur Valdimarsson (guitar)
Gunnar Ragnarsson (lead vox)
Björgvin Ingi Pétursson (bass)
Ágúst Fannar Ásgeirsson (keys)