First-ever vinyl edition with bonus tracks of the debut (cassette/digital) post-punk masterpiece by Icelandic trio Kaelan Mikla. Tapped by The Cure frontman Robert Smith to play his edition of Meltdown Festival would be a pretty amazing feat, but for K?lan Mikla, it's just another day. Indeed the death-rock turned post-punk trio from the heart of Reykjavik has been turning heads since they formed five years ago in 2013. It all started after the three (Margr?t R?sa D?ru-Harrysd?ttir on bass, Laufey Soffia taking lead vocals, screeches, and devastating death-rock laments, and S?lveig Matthildur Kristj?nsd?ttir on keys) won a poetry slam competition at the City of Reykjavik library, featuring S?lveig's writing. Then, in the summer of 2014, before synthesizers, before any electronic instruments really, they cranked out a purely raw bass, drum, and vocals session of death rock gems that are electrifying and, frankly, gorgeous. With Alison MacNeil (Kimono) producing, the band completed its first album, M?nadans, only to have it shelved. Since then, K?lan Mikla have been invited to Roadburn and Iceland Airwaves. They will soon embark on their first tour of South America. And they've been invited to tour with Drab Majesty and King Dude. And then there's Robert Smith, who came knocking and extolling the band's youthful energy and poetic darkness. The band's long lost death-rock masterpiece M?nadans now gets a deluxe worldwide issue via Toronto-based Artoffact Records. Available on vinyl, CD, and digital formats, the album is fully remastered and includes the bonus track Reykjav?k til stadar, as well as the demo version of their hit song Kalt.
