Þeyr - Life Transmission

After the release of their first album Þagað I Hel which wasn't supposed to be a new wave record at all, the band released their first single "Life Transmission" , showing the band's new direction in music.

Side A: Life Transmission - a mid-tempo post-punk song, sung in English, which has some great guitar riffs and a bass chord which sounds quite similar to the one in the Stranglers' song Toiler on the Sea. But the most remarkable thing about this song is the fact that the singer's voice does very much sound like David Bowie. There are also some distorted quitars in the middle section and the song ends with a beautiful coda.

Side B: Heima Er Bezt - is very different from Side A, sung in Icelandic, it starts very slowly with a punk bass chord - then a voice whispers something - drums and leading guitar start playing, the low-key voice is chanting something quite mystically, this chanting is repeated several times during the song. In the middle section there's kind of a jam session between the instruments also the voice has its ad lib part.

With this release Þeyr developed their trademark sound, which is of a one kind in the post-punk sector.