Mammut

I only discovered them in 2016, but the band is already almost 20 years old. Originally, a trio of girls who started playing together at 13, then recruited a boy on second guitar and another on drums. They're the Icelandic band I've seen live the most, 11 times to date. If they play two days in a row, I go; if they play twice in one day, I go. And I still don't really know how to describe their powerful appeal. Guitar rock, no doubt, but singular, hypnotic rock that works just as well in a stripped-down version, a cappella in a swimming pool or in the middle of a roundabout .

Already very good on record, it is on stage that they are the most impressive, like a gang united around the very charismatic singer Kata, capable of going on stage very very pregnant and carrying the room into the trance of which the group has the secret.

http://www.mammut.is/

photo: Hélène Tourbine