This Is My Shit is a diverse collection of home recordings that spans a range of styles, from bassy trap to lo-fi rock ‘n’ roll, perky chiptunes, a bizarre synthetic medieval folk sound, and more besides. From song to song, the aesthetic template is continually ripped up and started again, in a manner reminiscent of ongoing aesthetic self-immolation.

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This is My Shit hlaut Kraumsverðlaunin árið 2016 fyrir eina af sex bestu plötum ársins.

Ómótstæðileg poppplata frá þúsundþjalasmiðnum Páli Ivani frá Eiðum sem sló í gegn löngu áður en hún kom út. Platan This is my Shit er fyrsta breiðskífa hans og inniheldur 14 lög af öllum gerðum. Nauðsynleg í safnið.

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In her liner notes, Dr. Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir describes that due to low prices after the financial crass of 2008, artists poured into cheap housing in downtown Reykjavik, beginning an aesthetic era tainted by uncertainty, anger and high ideals.

During this era, a group of eccentrics fabulated an entirely new civilization spawned from experimental cultural practices. Within S.L.Á.T.U.R., this was most often embodied in musical––as well as sometimes in visual and somewhat theatrical––performances centering around animated notation and video scores, found objects, and home–made or heavily prepared instruments.

Whole new artistic languages evolved from these limited means, developed through an extreme frequency of events and constantly evolving collaborations. Building on these experiments, Guðmundur Steinn has forged an eccentric world of his own, continually polishing his taste for the unimposing and…  more

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