Coming up in this Friday’s SpaceScan: Alternative rock from the Faroe Islands and hardcore from Iceland. The first is courtesy of Petur Pólson, who recently released his third solo album ‘Transit’, and the latter is served up by quartet Swords Of Chaos, who released their debut album ‘The End Is As Near As Your Teeth’ last year. Hope you’ll check them out, like what you hear, and perhaps tell us what you think. Have a grand weekend…

Petur Pólson (FO) (Photo)
Mid-July Faroese alternative rocker Petur Pólson released his third solo album, ‘Transit’. I have only heard the two songs from it streaming on Facebook and onesheet.com – ‘Pissa Móti Vindi’ (meaning “piss against the wind” if I’m not totally mistaken), a sort of industrial Negro spiritual featuring 20-30 friends on claps, stomps and shouts, and ‘Alt Sum Melur’, in the player and sounding a bit like compatriots ORKA jamming with Grinderman – but they really make me want to hear the rest.

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Swords Of Chaos (ISL)
Hailing from Reykjavik, Iceland, quartet Swords Of Chaos dabble in hardcore ‘n metal of which they’ve compiled 11 punk-short songs (well, one breaks the four and one the six minute mark) in to a debut album titled ‘The End Is As Near As Your Teeth’ – which is rather near when you think about it – released last year on Kimi Records. Aggressive and noisy, Swords Of Chaos would fit any bill with Norwegian outfits Social Suicide and Jeroan Drive, and you can check out the whole album on gogoyoko.com.

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