Personnel: Einar ?rn (vocals, programming); Mark E. Smith (vocals); Frosti Logason (guitar); Hrafn Asgeirsson (saxophone); Steve Beresford (piano).
Recording information: B109 Reykjavik (05/14/2005); Bakkastad (05/14/2005); Hotel Room, Manchester, England (05/14/2005); Klink Og Bank (05/14/2005); Studio G, Brooklyn, NY (05/14/2005); The Mayan Ruins, Newark, NJ (05/14/2005); Timi (05/14/2005); Various Domestic Residences, London, England (05/14/2005).
"How abstract can you get?" asks Einar Orn, ex-Sugarcubes MC and Surrealist musician, on "Not Clean," one of the more easily accessible pieces on his second collection of arty, cutting-edge hip-hop and electronica. The answer is, of course--very. The Jungle Brothers' Sensational lends a sense of familiarity on the fractured, industrial-sounding "Good Morning," while Orn also intriguingly recruits the Fall's Mark E. Smith, avant-garde musician Steve Beresford, and performance artist KatieJane Garside in service of his all-encompassing, disorienting, electronic art vision.
Professional Reviews
Q (p.115) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "With a crunching electro soundtrack provided by producer Curver, Einar's guests include The Fall's Mark E Smith, Katie Jane Garside and avant-garde MCs Dalek, who join him in constructing malignant whimsies..."
Magnet (p.98) - "COD sees Orn's furious lack of rhythm and raises him to the absurd level where he belongs..."
