As the prime force behind Iceland’s Singapore Sling, Henrik Björnsson has created some of the most compelling psych rock of the past 15 years. With his creativity just as reliable as it is relentless and boundless, Björnsson has consistently made music that revolves around, as he puts it, his “love of the rock & roll of the past, and hatred for the majority of music around him.”
It’s this combination of love and hate that defines Singapore Sling’s triumphant 2014 album, “The Tower of Foroncity”. The album bathes you in musical references to The Jesus and Mary Chain, Suicide, late 50s’ and early 60s’ rock & roll, country music…the list is seemingly endless. And, in doing so, it offers you a listening experience unlike anything you’ve had before.
Not only is Foroncity one of the best albums of last year, but its strange genre amalgamations are the stuff of pure psychedelia in its original Greek definition of “mind-revealing” – challenging you to rethink what you thought you knew about genre and imagination. Indeed, Björnsson wants to challenge you, entertain you, and give you a true psychedelic experience – and Singapore Sling accomplish this to no end.
The Fat Angel Sings 