Undir Áhrifum
Album | Trúbrot
The Icelandic CSN&Y.
Legend has it that Led Zeppelin got the inspiration for their Viking-rock classic, "The Immigrant Song," while visiting Trúbrot in the latter's native Iceland. Ironically, the sounds stirred up by the Icelandic rockers on their second album were more in line with what was coming out of Laurel Canyon than the icy fjords of Reykjavik. Trúbrot's first album, featuring Shady Owens on lead vocals, was more of a progressive-pop affair, sung in Icelandic, but on 1970's predominantly English-language recording, Undir Áhrifum, the band moved in quite a different direction, seemingly under the influence of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. From the organic, acoustic/electric folk-rock textures of the tracks to the earthy vocal harmonies, Undir Áhrifum comes off like an Icelandic cousin to CSNY's Déjà vu. There are occasional prog-rock leanings, which are unsurprisingly most blatant on the two longest cuts, "Feel Me" and "Stjornuryk," the latter sounding a bit like Yes's contemporaneous output, but in the main, Trúbrot sound like they would have probably been right at home in early-‘70s L.A.
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