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FUFANU share new single 'Your Collection' + OCTOBER dates....



Taken from the Icelandic band's hotly anticipated debut 'Few More Days To Go' (November 27) 'Your Collection' is released November 20.

 

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The band are back in the UK for shows later this month before embarking on a European tour with John Grant.

Sun 25th         October           Glasgow         King Tuts
Mon 26th         October           Manchester    The Castle
Tue 27th          October           Leeds              Oporto
Thu 29th          October           Birmingham     Sunflower Lounge
Fri 30th            October           London            The Lexington

Launching at last November’s Iceland Airwaves, within the space of a week, Fufanu had become the most talked about new band of the festival, made their UK live debut at London’s JaJaJa night and supported Damon Albarn at the Albert Hall - winning the approval of Brian Eno into the bargain - and leaving a trail of foaming plaudits in their wake.
 
Formerly operating as techno/ electronic duo, Captain Fufanu (while Kaktus and Gulli were still in their teens), with the addition of live instrumentation – and the band name shortened to a more economical Fufanu (“the Captain was left behind at a rave in Cologne”) – the pair began working up a dark, metronomic take on 70s and 80s European music. If clangorous metallic guitars and floor shaking syncopated bass are key factors in the band’s powerful circumspect post-punk, then the live show with it’s MBV-like furnace blasts of volume is a game changer: The mordant wit suggested by song titles like Plastic Peopleand opener Goodbye can shift up into thrillingly cold malevolence, fronted by ‘slyph-like’ singer Kaktus Einarsson’s magnetic stage presence.

 

 

“An utterly captivating rock band.” Huw Stephens, NME

“Gripping to watch… Kaktus is a star.” Evening Standard

“Part cold-wave, part post-punk, it's ferocious live...Their boldness and vast reserves of potential are what make them by far and away our favourite Icelandic act.” Dazed & Confused

“Strange, dark, discomforting and mesmerising in equal measure.” The Line of Best Fit

“Their performance left no room for nit-picking. Or doubt. Or anything really - a sheer sonic avalanche that swept up everyone in the room.” Drowned in Sound

“A tantalising amalgamation of The Fall, Bauhaus and the weirder corners of Blur’s output.” Q Magazine