FM Belfast - Don't Want To Sleep

For the past four years, FM Belfast who feature members of Icelandic group MUM have been perfecting the art of reading an audience and connecting with it, using their steadily growing skills to hone a music that catches easily, yet runs deep; an art of performing that can-and usually does-induce unique and euphoric states in large crowds of people, or just in your headphones. It is harsh and technical, warm and embracing and organic, thoughtful and giddy and cool and inclusive. On the basis of their combined experience, imagination and skill, the group has managed to craft a masterpiece with Don't Want To Go To Sleep. The songs retain the bouncy and joyful spirit of "How To Make Friends", yet veer off into territories that the band have hitherto left unexplored. There are slow songs and introspective ones; calm, drifting meditations mixed with calls to arms and potential dancefloor workouts. And lots of fun, of course. Tracks like the beautiful "Noise" and "We Fall" depict serene dreamscapes that still burst with power and rhythm. The understated "Winter", with its anxious bite and underlying warmth, captures the essence of the overpowering Icelandic winter in its suffocating embrace. "Vertigo" entices and enthrals, "American" bops, gallops and is impossible not to sing along to. UK press campaign - updates to follow

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