If you google the word Andhéri you will get a lot of results about a suburb of Mumbai in India. You'll have to dig pretty deep to find out it's also the name of a now defunct Icelandic band which appeared in 1997. I have now been pondering this for quite a while and have come to the conclusion that their only album, released on Bad Taste that same year, is most likely my favorite icelandic album.The band first appeared at the local Battle of the Bands, which that year was won by Soðin Fiðla (mentioned before here). Bad Taste picked them up for inclusion in a series of EP's they released that year, and they also had a song in a movie which most people agree is the worst icelandic movie ever made.
Apparently influenced by swedish band Bob Hund, Andhéri included Örvar Þóreyjarson and Gunnar Örn Tynes, who in 1998 went on to form a band some of you might know; Múm. The album was nominated as the years best album at the annual Icelandic Music Award, Gunnar was nominated as bassplayer of the year, the keyboardist, Guðfinna, as keyboardist of the year and Númi Thomarsson as drummer of the year. None of them won, and the album lost to Björk's Homogenic.
Númi had a few years before appeared in the band Mósaík, and is now a cook, Guðfinna is a designer and teacher. Sources disagree on wether the second guitarist was Eyþór or Einar, but in any case I have no idea what happened to him. Örvar and Gunnar are busy with Múm as it is.
I've decided on publishing two MP3's, the former, "Plútó", has been on the Bad Taste website for years though their handsome MP3 collection has now been removed. In this song the formerly outermost planet of the solar system, Plúto, sings about it's isolation and loneliness far out in the abyss; "I wallow in self pity, I am Pluto".
As for the second song, I had a hard time deciding on it since all the songs on the album are gems, there's never a dull moment. But this is the song I usually skip to first when I put it on. Hope you enjoy them.
Andhéri - Stundum veit ég ekki alveg hvar ég er (Sometimes I'm not quite sure where I am)
Andhéri - Plútó
[Get the album from Bad Taste]
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