Myrkvi and Yngvi Holm are releasing an album called Early Warning. Originally intended for their old band Vio, it was many years in the making and features arrangements created with its previous bandmembers: Kári Guðmundsson and Páll Cecil Sævarsson.
The album represents a conclusion of the past and the transition into something new. An introspective reflection of the duo’s 90s roots, wasted years and common lunacy. Its name, Early Warning, alludes to something brewing under the surface and spectacular things to come. The album artworks are paintings by Freydís Halldórsdóttir, inspired by a childhood nightmare.
It was recorded in their second home for the past decade: a studio in the quiet Icelandic valley Mosfellsdalur. The music is guitar driven, like everything the duo has touched so far, but the soundscape is more vivid and extensive than on any of their previous releases. Having developed over a long period of time, the album is a culmination of ideas they have for long sought to express.
The songs were written during the difficult period in every band’s career when the bliss of its initial success had started to settle. The album grapples with topics such as not knowing where to go, the lunacy of choosing to spend one’s life chasing such an evasive dream, and the looming break up of the original band. It also features songs about friendship, revelry and forgetting one’s troubles, as well as a cheeky ridicule of the prosperity race, not to mention love and depression.
