Jan Mayen

Jan Mayen apeared in the Icelandic music sene late 2003 when they released a five-song EP. Then the full-lenght album Home of the Free Indeed apeared a year later on Smekkleysa (Bad Taste Records) and was nominated for three awards at the Icelandic Music Awards in 2005.

Their music has been described as a combination of loud rock with pop and noise influences and critics have said their music sound something like Sonic Youth, Minute Men, The Strokes, The Ramones, The Rapture, Pretty Girls Make Graves and Liars. ----------------

A brand new Jan Mayen album is out now: SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOUR NORMAL LIFE available through www.smekkleysa.is/