Dýrðin

Album reviews:



"Only two of these eleven songs are in English. But guess what, it doesn’t make much difference cos this Icelandic powerpop band make the sweetest noise! And at under 30 minutes, before you know it, it’s all over and you have to start the CD all over again. And you will, cos Dýrdin churn out really cool & bright pop music that it is almost irresistible.

- powerofpop.blogspot.com



"Only a couple of the songs pass the three minute mark, and each of them is a sheer delight, making this a sure candidate for many top ten lists this year!"

- indiepages.com



"The group's songs on this album are also steeped in worlds of fantasy . each is more fairy-tale-like than the one before it. That suits their music well: the way they charge through their light, playful pop songs in a forceful way echoes with the same darkness/light combination inherent in all fairy tales, filled as they are with both dreams and nightmares."

- erasingclouds.com



"Relentlessly jolly, jangling japes . These folks rock, albeit in quite a cute, loveable and almost outrageously fun way."

- vanityproject fanzine



"jangly guitars, smooth female vocals, harmonies with drums bass and keyboards that just hop and bop along like it's a sunny happy day from start to finish. Dyrdin are fast, bobby and sugar-sweet and will appeal to fans of any and all twee bands – Sarah Records, Harriet Records, Tender Trap, Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Tullycraft, all the Matinee bands, etc. Recommended for indie pop fans."

- lefthip.com



"All but two of the songs are sung in Icelandic and the melodic indie pop tunes don't take long to overcome the language barrier. The songs are about Jón Sigurðsson who is Iceland's independence hero, love affairs with aliens including Star Trek's Mr Spock, ruined romances and kissing frogs amongst other occurrences that can somehow be applied to daily tales of life. Indeed the songs, which posses a certain charm when sung in their native tongue, and their bizarre subjects could easily be Norse sagas for the 21st century .

Dyrdin have put together a collection of well crafted and infectious pop tunes that you will want to play time and time again. Buy it and get bopping!"

- Indie-mp3.co.uk



"Sitting somewhere comfortably between the cute-girl-vocal-harmonics of Dizzy Joghurt and the treble-laden-cute-subject-matter of All Girl Summer Fun Band on the as-yet-to-be-invented pop meter, the boys and gals of Dyrdin reel you in with tales of statues that crave hot dogs, ubercute love affairs with space aliens and snowmen/women melting together as one on Christmas morning… all of which are set to bouncy twee melodies and lyrics sung in the band’s native Icelandic language . you’re a total jackass if you don’t give the group a shot. This record guarantees love at first spin"

- retrolowfi.com



"the sheer exuberance and joy of the sounds cross language barriers with sweetness and light."

- tangents.co.uk



"Dyrdin is reminiscent of bands like Go Sailor, Cub, and numerous other female-fronted bubble gum pop punk bands with endless amounts of melodic two-minute songs. I don’t care if it’s not in English (mostly), it’s so darn catchy!"

- 75orless.com



"From one song to the next, the guitars jangle, the keyboards chirp n’ chime , the drums slap and the vocalist sounds like the happiest person in the world. Listening to tunes like “Mr Spock”, “Popp and Co”, “Bubble Girl” and “Hunangsdropar” you’ll realize it ain’t rocket science but it’s just infectious music played by 5 folks who are doing it cos’ they love it and those kinds of bands have always been they best kind for me."

- www.indiepages.com/dagger



"I literally knew nothing about them, but as soon as the music started, I was tapping my toes. By song two, there was head bobbing and involuntary clapping; before I knew it, I had abandoned my Rousseau and was dancing around my tiny, tiny bedroom The listener is transported to other magical places, such as lands where grandpas can orbit into outer space after jumping on a trampoline, and a cold, cold winter far, far away as two snowpeople fall in love and melt together with the rising of the sun . If that doesn't make you want to put aside your lack of knowledge of Icelandic and jump around in your living room for awhile, I'm just not sure what will."

- athensexchange.com



"This debut album of theirs is so chipper it could run up a tree and eat nuts . if Dýrðin hadn’t been picked up by Skipping Stones, then Shelflife would have been a natural home for them. Both labels enjoy this kind of adorable jangle-pop, this happy naiveté. It’s the sort of music that doesn’t stoop to denying real-world trauma—it jumps straight to ignoring it completely."

- popmatters.com



"Dýrðin, playing upstairs at the tiny Grand Rokk to about 30 people, are the discovery of the festival for me - a gloriously pithy, pogo-worthy sha-la-la band in the Pipettes/Heavenly vein."

- pitchforkmedia.com



Order our debut album here!