Taken from the My Summer as a Salvation Soldier myspace:

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Allt að verða vitlaust.

Right. So 2008 was pretty quiet year for me. I did a US tour and played a couple of shows in Paris and released an album (Activism). One of the reasons it was so slow was that a great part of the year I spent working on other musical projects (Gavin Portland, DMSS....etc).

But that doesn..t mean I haven..t been writing new songs. I have a lot of songs written and now I..m working on recording them. Hopefully I..ll have a new album out this summer..

I..m coming over to the UK to play a few shows soon. Should be fun. I..ll post all the details as soon as I get them.

But I..m still very interested in doing some releases along the album using all the extra songs I..ll have so if anyone is interested in releasing a 7", ep, split, anything really, get in touch.

I..ll post my favorite albums of the year list soon.

-Þórir
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Some news:

We´ve got a compilation cd coming up with various recordings from MSSS. Ambient, noise, drone, guitar improvisations. You know the score. We´re working on artwork and selecting songs and it will be out in December.

My Summer as a Salvation Soldier upcoming EP has been recorded and we´re working on the artwork. In addition to that there will be a couple of shows in Paris the first weekend of December.
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Krallice may have released the album of the year with their self titled debut. Here´s a song for you guys to listen to.

http://www.profoundlorerecords.com/mp3/Krallice_Wretched.mp3

I can not recommend this enough.

-SSR

Finally there are some news. I´ve recorded 4 songs for an EP that will be released by my friend Jeremy from France on his new Camaraderie label. I´ve also finished recording a song for the split 7" I´m doing with Tentacles of Doom. Some of that music will probably find it´s way on here at some point.

And more excitingly, Carpet Show has finished recording his first album which will hopefully be released in the next few months.

And here´s an interview with my favorite comedian Patton Oswalt on the Jimmy Kimmel show.



-Þórir

Here´s a little family portrait. Been sick and bedridden for almost two weeks. Been working on a lot of new demos. One of whom has been posted on the myspace.

The last post had a video of an Animal Collective show who are definitely one of the family favorites. So I thought I might put a video of another family favorite in this post. Not a live clip this time but a video of possibly one of my 5 favorite songs of all time. And from a definite top 10 album.

The Flaming Lips - Race for the prize (from The Soft Bulletin)




On music related note. I´ve been listening to the new Grouper. It is possibly my favorite album of the year so far. And there have been some grate albums released in the last 6 months or so.

I´m planning on uploading some more new demos as soon as I have more vocals recorded. I´m excited about the new songs. They will be quite different.

-Þórir

Here´s an incredible live set by Animal Collective. Taped in 2006 in Poland. One my all time favorite bands and definitely one of the more important ones for me personally. Check it out if you´re bored.

I put a new song on my myspace. It´s just a pretty rough demo. But I´m pleased with the song.

-Þórir

Just got home from Denmark. It was a nice trip. The first few days I spent walking around Copenhagen in the sun listening to Panda Bear. That made me feel like I was in Spain. It was great.



Then Júlía came over and we went to Viborg to visit my family. Our first day the weather was awesome and we spent the day in a park playing football with my brother and sister and listening to Black Lips and Jay Reatard.

The rest of the week it was gray and wet so we mostly stayed indoors. And we listened to a lot of Private.



Now we´re home. Tomorrow´s independence day.

-Þórir

We´re going to Denmark. In a few days. Last visit before the family moves back to Iceland. I´ll be playing a couple of shows as a fill in bass player for my friends Dormah.

We´ve got a couple of "real" releases lined up. A new My Summer as a Salvation Soldier vinyl EP. And hopefully Carpet Show will finish his album at some point. We´re excited about that. As of now we have no idea when the Carpet Show album will be ready but the MSAASS EP should be out late summer/early fall.

I´ve been listening to Jay Reatard almost non stop lately. I highly recommend him/them.

I´ll put up some new songs soon. I hope.

-MSAASS