Paul Mardles 

Of Monsters and Men: My Head is an Animal – review

The debut album from Iceland's answer to Arcade Fire is smothered by windy rock, writes Paul Mardles
  
  


Huge stars in their native Iceland, raggle-taggle rockers Of Monsters and Men have what it takes to achieve the same success in Britain, combining as they do Arcade Fire's exuberance and Mumford & Sons' undemanding take on folk. And yet for all the wide-eyed charm of its finest songs – recent single Dirty Paws is electrifying – the sextet's debut album is too empty to excite, its odder, quieter moments all but smothered by windy rock. A shame, because in vocalists Nanna and "Raggi", Of Monsters and Men boast Iceland's own Kim Deal and Frank Black.

 

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