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Sindri Eldon – Bitter, Resentful

13 track album on CD and blue marble-patterned vinyl.

“For Sindri Eldon, it isn’t the case that there is no place like home, so much as there being no such thing as home. At an age when other children were learning to ride bikes and swapping comic books, this now twenty-something resident of Reykjavik, Iceland, was being ferried around the world by his mother – known to all as Icelandic icon Björk – and father, both of whom played in a touring band. 

“In a way,” he says, “hotel rooms and airports feel like home to me more than home in the conventional sense of the term does. It’s my natural environment, I guess.”

But if you were to regard the above information and infer that for Sindri Eldon the life of a bandleader, musician, recording artist and live performer was as natural and inevitable as a succession to the throne, you would be wrong. Ever contrary, when Sindri did finally come off the road in order to live in Reykjavik as a teenager he decided the last thing in the world he wanted to do was join a band. This, though, was only a temporary injunction, and soon enough the now no longer wandering adolescent decided that he did fancy making music after all. It was just his reason for doing so that was a bit, well, unreasonable.

“Some friends of mine formed a band and they wouldn’t let me join,” he says. “They didn’t need another guy. I couldn’t play an instrument, anyway – but then again, neither could they! So I formed my own group, just to spite them.” […]

With its captivating sense of melody, its inventive and economical arrangements, and its commanding yet often cute sense of song-structure, Bitter & Resentful is an album set to lighten the mood of even the darkest winter night. But this is more than vanilla music for a distracted generation, as song titles such as Song Of Frustration In The Face Of Resolute Fidelity and I Have Earned The Right To Be A Failure make clear. Even more defiantly, Bitter & Resentful’s opening track runs its sentiment straight up the flag-pole and asks the listener to salute with the title America – An Ode.” – Music Glue

Tracklist:
1. America – An Ode
2. Ég Verð Hér
3. I Have Earned The Right To Be A Failure
4. Almost Exactly
5. Bitter & Resentful
6. Honeydew
7. Doer
8. 18
9. Song Of Frustration In The Face Of Resolute Fidelity
10. The Lovers
11. Irma (The Game)
12. Things Coming To A Head
13. In Hindsight…