Bad Rockets is the second track of our new soon to be released album SPORTS. This video to it we shot it on location in Reykjavik. First we went to the docks and back tracked to our rehearsal studio. We possibly partied to hard. Have a look!
Sports is out on February 3rd but it can be pre-ordered now from our shop.
What Was Said After The Show!?
photos by Brynjar Snær
We just played Iceland Airwaves here in Reykjavik. The show was fantastic and we were not the only ones of that opinion. Here are two reviews of the concert from Rolling Stone and Consequence of Sound.
"The best thing about attending festivals in countries other than your own is finding an already exciting and prominent band you had no idea even existed. One such band at my time in Iceland Airwaves was Fufanu. They’ve gotten some coverage in America, but they’ve apparently been one of the “It” bands of Iceland for a couple of years now — and the thrilling, cool, and composed performance showed it. Led by mischievous frontman Kaktus Einarsson and his maybeironic swagger, the quartet dug through some impeccably composed new wave and post-punk-indebted goodness. “Do you mind coming closer?” Einarsson mugged at the under-enthusiastic crowd, blowing raspberries and rolling his eyes after they failed to catch his attempted stage dive. “We want it close, we want it loud, we want it sober and erotic,” he deadpanned. They spent a lot of time on tracks from their upcoming record, Sports, including the rippling, sublime title track and the threatening “Bad Rockets”. By set’s end, Einarsson had windmill-spiked his microphone and kicked over the drumset. Like the self-aware, smart-ass little brother Interpol never wanted, Fufanu are poised for something big."
Consequence of Sound
"One of the pleasures of returning to an annual festival like Iceland Airwaves is checking in, across a few years, with bands that hold promise but haven't quite grown into their own skin. Fufanu is one that I've seen at a variety of stages – coming through techno, hip-hop and punk-rock aggression. But this was the year that they looked and sounded like a knockout rock & roll band, still using machine-generated loops as embedded, rhythmic devices yet mostly stripped down to the bone-dance sinew of guitar, bass and drums, like the early Blur streaked with the distorting snarl of the Jesus and Mary Chain. Fufanu mostly played new material, from a forthcoming album produced by guitarist Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and they did it with conquering verve. "It's a win-win situation for everyone!" singer Kaktus shouted at the end, like a chant. He was right, too. Fufanu finally hit the gas; we all scored."
Rolling Stone
Inspiration for our forthcoming tour of the UK in February.
And tickets are available from our shop now!
Sports it shall be! & a tour!
Sports is the name of our new album
We are quite excited to be able to announce title of our new album as Sports. We recorded the album here in Iceland at Hljóðriti Studio with Nick Zinner producing.
Sports will be released into the big beautiful world on February 3rd, but we have made it available for pre-order as of now. It is in our brand new flunking store.
We are also very happy that the album will be availble on vinyl as 2 x 33rpm for maximum listening pleasure, and to top it if pre-ordered a limited 7" will be included.
That is not all! As we will hit the UK with a tour in February 2017. Tickets for these events are also availble from our store.
The dates are in the following order:
Feb 14th – Gulliver’s – Manchester
Feb 15th – Oporto – Leeds
Feb 17th – Nice N Sleazy – Glasgow
Feb 20th – The Flapper – Birmingham
Feb 21st – The Louisana – Bristol
Feb 22nd – Kamio – London
Feb 23rd – Green Door Store – Brighton
See and hear you soon!
Sports is our new song and video
We have unveiled the first track from our new album. The track is Sports and and we have done a video to it on location in Mosfellsbær.
The track and album is produced by Nick Zinner, and was recorded in Hafnarfjörður. Both of these strangely named locations are in Iceland.
In October we head over to London to play a gig on the 6th of October and then to Seattle for another gig on the 15th. Then we appear at the Icelandairwaves Festival
We have tickets available for the London concert simply here!
We head into London!
The Deluxe Version is Out!
This is our deluxe version of Few More Days to Go! It includes nearly all of our b-sides and remixes. A must!
Now we start working on new songs! Fun times!
Plastic People Go To Video
Here is our video to Plastic People. We shot the video on a cloudy day in centre of Reykjavik. We placed our selves in Austurstræti with our gear.
The day before we had been talking to Snorri Sturluson about videos. He said, "why don't we do one tomorrow downtown. I have my 360° camera with me!"
The video needs Chrome or Safari Browser to view the 360 experience.
The MuMu Radio Mix version of Plastic People was created by Marius de Vries & Matt Robertson.
The song can be bought/streamed from https://OLI.lnk.to/PlasticPeopleYT
Plastic People Come Alive
We release Marius De Vries reworked version of Plastic People as a single on 17th June, and some say the new mix refining the song down to it’s elementary groove.
We will also include it on a 16 track repackaged version of their Few More Days to Go debut released the same day.
As a matter of fact this same day we support Radiohead here in Reykjavik and this day is Iceland's National Day! How about that.
One can listen and buy the single now from here!
Or listen now...