Miri

.. -- Amie Street Player -- ..
Miri was born in 2003 at the L.ung.A festival in Seyðisfjörður where Árni, Ívar and Hjalti met and decided to make some music together, soon Guðmundur joined them.
Óttar began to Jam occasionally with them and in 2005 he joined the band.

The Album "Fallegt Þorp" was recorded live one night during the L.ung.A festival 2005. It’s produced by Curver and features Björt Sigfinnsdóttir playing saxophone.

"Generally, when a band..s guitarist takes to the stage donning a pair of angel wings it’s a safe bet that what will follow will be a bit precious, a bit delicate and, well, angelic. So it was a shock when the first song from the Icelandic instrumental quartet Miri gradually opened into churning oceans of sound. The group..s set at Organ Friday night was majestic, full of creamy guitars and startling soft loud dynamics. Their songs arrive at their crescendos the way an inventor arrives at an idea, in sudden burst of joy and inspiration."
-Review in the Reykjavik Grapevine, Airwaves issue
"A 7:30 PM set on October 19th by the young instrumental quartet Miri, at the small, upstairs club Grand Rokk, confirmed the virtues of hitting the pavement early. Miri, who come from west Iceland, only had time for two pieces. But the first was twenty minutes long -- a winding road through double-guitar motifs closer to the Texan space-rock of Explosions in the Sky than the glacial concertos of Sigur Rós, with the bonus of a distinctly Beatle-esque clang. One segment was built on a church-bell power chord that sounded like a bright chip off the one that opens "Getting Better" on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Miri’s self-released debut EP, Fallegt Thorpe, is a rougher draft of what I saw. But the promise is unmistakeable."

- Iceland Airwaves review by David Fricke for The Rolling Stone"Wordless progressive noise mixed with a surprisingly warm pallet of emotions and laced with intricate, mesmerising and often stunningly beautiful guitar work, Fallegt Þorp is a true gem, the type of EP that leaves you wishing for a full-length release. The oddly vacant chord progressions and disconnected sound make for excellent hangover music, a slow, hazy waft that makes you think of a sunbeam hitting cigarette smoke through a window. A fine effort, spoiled only by the half-heartedness of Hafðu Gætur Á Mér, but otherwise unassailable."- Fallegt Þorp review in Reykjavík Grapevine.