Slowblow is the final album by Icelandic band Slowblow

Slowblow

Slowblow is an Icelandic musical duo consisting of Orri Jónsson and Dagur Kári Pétursson. Their music is an aesthetic of home-made, lo-fi analog tinkerings, which often slips into both electronic and folksy terrain. They began recording in the mid 1990s and have made several albums together...

, released in 2004. Then lead singer, Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir

Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir

Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir is an Icelandic vocalist and classically trained multi-instrumentalist. She is best known as a former frontperson of múm, and later on for collaborating with former husband David Portner as Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan....

, in another Icelandic band Múm

Múm

múm are an experimental Icelandic musical group whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments.- History :...

, and Amiina

Amiina

Amiina is an Icelandic band composed of Hildur Ársælsdóttir , Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir , Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir , and Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir . They frequently perform live and in the studio along with Sigur Rós...

 band member, Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, made notable appearances on several tracks of the album. The title of track number 9 "Hamburger Cemetary" from the album sleeve has been correctly reproduced in the list below, despite the correct spelling being "cemetery".

Track listing

1. "Very Slow Bossanova" — 3:55
2. "I Know You Can Smile" — 3:23
3. "Within Tolerance" — 4:03
4. "Second Hand Smoke" — 3:39
5. "Happiness in Your Face" — 3:20
6. "Aim for a Smile" — 4:16
7. "Cardboard Box" — 3:06
8. "Dark Horse" — 3:33
9. "Hamburger Cemetary" — 4:23
10. "Phantom of My Organ" — 5:09

Personnel

• Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir
  Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir
  Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir is an Icelandic vocalist and classically trained multi-instrumentalist. She is best known as a former frontperson of múm, and later on for collaborating with former husband David Portner as Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan....
  
   — vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
   on track 2, 3, 7, 10.
• Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir — violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
   on track 3, 4, 10.
• Gyða Valtýsdóttir — cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
   on track 4.
• Valdi Kolli — double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
   on track 1.
• Óli Björn — drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
   on track 4.
• Pétur — banjo
  Banjo
  In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
  
   on track 6.
• Kristján Freyr — drums on track 6.
• Guðrún Hrund — viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
  on track 9.
• Una — violin on track 9.
• Hrafnhildur — violin on track 9.
• Hrafnkell Orri — cello on track 9.