Of Monsters and Men - a light-hearted six piece Icelandic acoustic band that I've been listening to - they won Iceland's Músiktilraunir battle of the bands competition - their single “Little Talks” hit No. 1 in Iceland last year and is gaining momentum in other countries - this year they've released a new…

Tis with mercy we give our music to the world.

Why Mercy?

There is no other reason to give, each of us looks around at the universe and we see and hear nothing.

We hear only through headsets in a private world that is increasingly less challenging to our notions of art.

Hear what you know.

compartments of music via itunes or cloud or you tube or ipods or MP3 players all delivered like porn in a plain brown envelope to your ears.

This is not to say…