If you're expecting Stórsveit Nix Noltes to share atmospheric musical tendencies with the likes of fellow Icelanders Bjork or Sigur Ros, forget it. This 11 piece group's latest album, titled Royal Family-Divorce, combines traditional Icelandic folk with elements of hot-jazz and funk. The result is a sound of frenzied time-signatures and energetic rhythms, just as fierce and chaotic as the multi-headed dragon that adorns their album cover. SNN are also supposedly a fierce live act and are set to open up for the Animal Collective on their upcoming tour - don't let this line-up fool you though - both groups sound completely different. If AC are the sound of euphoria, then SNN is the sound of drunken revelry.
Listen To: "Wedding Rachenitsa", "Krivo Sadovsko Horo", "Trakijska Rachenista"
RIYL: Gogol Bordello, Sforzando, Balkan Beat Box
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