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Icelandic band Seabear started a few years ago by self-releasing an EP called ‘The Singing Arc’. Initially a one-man-band, Sindri Már Sigfússon had to recruit a few friends in order to accept an offer to support The Books at a concert in Berlin. The new line-up stuck, and the band now numbers seven. Seabear’s debut long-layer The Ghost that Carried Us Away is just out on German label Morr Music, and it’s a quiet gem. Seabear make gentle indie folk, melodic, sometimes ambient and atmospheric, other times playful and energetic. Piano, violin and acoustic guitar support the breathy intimate vocals. There are echoes of Sufjan Stevens and My Friend the Chocolate Cake, and parallels with US act Radical Face (which is also on Morr Music). Sigfússon lists the band’s influences as: owls; scarecrows; my cat; the weather; the summer; the winter; Iceland; coffee. Have a go at Cat Piano featuring some nice glockenspiel work, and the poppier Libraries, both off Ghost. |
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