Artist » Retro Stefson

• Format: CD/Digital
• Released: 18.10.2010
• Website: retrostefson.com

Retro Stefson was busy during this years Iceland Airwaves. Besides from performing on Nasa on saturday evening after Hercules & Love Affair they released their sophomore album on Kimi Records, played for Benni Hemm Hemm and countless off-venue gigs.

Kimbabwe is the album and was released on October 18^th on Kimi Records. Kimbabwe contains 11 songs recorded in Hljóðriti, one of Iceland’s oldest recording studios. It’s produced and engineered Kiddi from Hjálmar, but he is responsible for recording Hjaltalín’s Terminal, Hjálmar albums and many more.

Retro Stefson:

Retro Stefson are one of Iceland brightest hopes. The band started out as a project in middle school in 2006 and has since then become Iceland’s top live acts. They made their public debut at the 2006 Iceland Airwaves festival, then 14, 15 and 16 years old. Since then the band has played a big part in the Reykjavik and Iceland music scene, playing regularly all around the city.

Their first record Montaña was released in Iceland in the autumn of 2008. They have sold over 2000 copies and have received thrilling reviews. Their second album is due October 2010.

The band has toured intensely in Iceland over the last couple of years which has made them really successful. Their first single “Senseni” has been the party boomer all over the island since its release. The band has performed at the Icelandic Airwaves festival 3 times and last year’s performance with FM Belfast was the festival’s absolute “climax”. They played at 2009 By:Larm where they got really good vibes from all over the place.

Retro Stefson is a pop band but not by any means a typical one. Retro Stefson’s music has been described in multiple ways, the words surf, latin, jazz, afro and pop up most frequently – with the members hailing from various countries it’s no wonder the influences are so many – but let’s not get tangled up in genres. The main thing is that the music is fun, youthful and refreshing.

The most fitting description is maybe this one:
Retro Stefson are the “pop” in your popcorn and the “smooth” in your smoothie. If Retro Stefson was an animal it would be a mixture of a squirrel and a lizard and a baby chimp. In other words a lemur, with some lizard in it.

Here you can listen to a song from the album:

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