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Hailing from Iceland FaMR comprises of four 20-year-olds from Reykjavík, Iceland - Kjartan Holm (guitar), Guðfinnur Sveinsson (guitar and piano), Elvar Jón Guðmundsson (bass) and Andri Freyr Þorgeirsson (percussion). Their music is best described as energetic, melodious post-rock, though being the natural creative visionaries they are, the band expand and even subvert their style with almost every song.
Starting life as a hard rock duo in a tiny garage in Reykjavík, Iceland, For a Minor Reflection (FaMR) morphed into an indie rock trio (for a week or so) and a blues quartet (for a little longer) before finally arriving at their current incarnation: instrumental post-rockers du jour.
Back in 2007, the quartet struck up a fan base with their self-produced debut album Reistu þig við, sólin er komin á loft… (Rise, the sun’s up…), a mesmerizing, hour-long tapestry featuring six songs and recorded over a weekend in their friend’s studio. This record, as well as their energetic live shows, earned them a slew of accolades, including favourable comparisons to Explosions in the Sky, Caspain and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Their fellow Icelanders Sigur Rós even described them as “a band with the potential to out Mogwai”.
Following a scintillating live performance at 2007’s Iceland Airwaves, FaMR were invited to undertake a two-week 2008 tour in the USA and Canada.
Starting life as a hard rock duo in a tiny garage in Reykjavík, Iceland, For a Minor Reflection (FaMR) morphed into an indie rock trio (for a week or so) and a blues quartet (for a little longer) before finally arriving at their current incarnation: instrumental post-rockers du jour.
Back in 2007, the quartet struck up a fan base with their self-produced debut album Reistu þig við, sólin er komin á loft… (Rise, the sun’s up…), a mesmerizing, hour-long tapestry featuring six songs and recorded over a weekend in their friend’s studio. This record, as well as their energetic live shows, earned them a slew of accolades, including favourable comparisons to Explosions in the Sky, Caspain and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Their fellow Icelanders Sigur Rós even described them as “a band with the potential to out Mogwai”.
Following a scintillating live performance at 2007’s Iceland Airwaves, FaMR were invited to undertake a two-week 2008 tour in the USA and Canada.
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Zillion wrote:
Amazing sound! Hope to see your live soon!
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mathpeal wrote:
Great!
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AlexBleed wrote:
awesome band.
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nefeloumpa wrote:
the ep is absolutely awesome....of course...
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pakatus wrote:
Como back to Portugal again...you guys need to be listened here....
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hendricahyana wrote:
The new EP is so good!
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thankMusic wrote:
I wish everybody would check out the new EP. It's completely brilliant!! ..so proud of these guys!
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TechForze wrote:
New EP: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/foraminor
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Cynthiasaurus wrote:
you guys were sick at black rabbit!
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bekijja wrote:
they were so amazing in Riga tonight, enchanting
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SickMinifig wrote:
heard this band at Sziget and now can't stop to listen it. very moving
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Sun7zu wrote:
Reistu þig við, sólin er komin á loft... is just... so good...
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Grabgesang wrote:
Seeing them live together with Ólafur Arnalds in Stuttgart was an incredible experience.
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achtneun wrote:
I'm surprised they haven't got more listeners..
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atdi1981 wrote:
amazing band with an amazing live show
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Smileisgone wrote:
Amazing
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SallyBlooms wrote:
That first one neighbours in block house should love on full volume :D
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uaeapple wrote:
first album i've listened to the genre post-rock :)
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azul0182 wrote:
Love love love. Wrote about them in my SxSW project over at http://bitchyvegansoundtrack.com/2011/04/for-a-minor-reflection-forest-city-lovers-foster-the-people/
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kfs2 wrote:
Haha, that dumbingofamerica interview is odd at times, interviewer says for example that postrock is self indulgent and boring a lot of the time, all right, thats something I can agree with. He however goes on to state that he would never categorize famr as that...haha what the hell is that?
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Studio: Day 5 & 6 - Almost there...
12 Aug 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/foraminorreflection
Day 5 & 6 - Almost there... We are so interesting....
Yesterday
we got A LOT of things done. Jói came back from being sick,
and basicly
we managed to record all the basic drums for the record. No
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6 Aug 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/foraminorreflection
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