Kinder versions

"From its opening moments, it's clear that Kinder Versions, the first album in English by Icelandic rock group Mammút, is opposed to restraint. It's hard to make any reference points that aren't condescending of the sheer breadth of its achievements: Musically it has elements of prog, or 70s female-fronted hard rock, but it's closer artistically to epic filmmaking - its deft lyrical evocation of familiar but ultimately alien inner and outer worlds is reminiscent of the work of Russian filmmaker Aleksei German, especially his 2013 science fiction film Hard to be a God; a muddy, disgusting depiction of an Earth-like planet stuck in medieval times that is visited by present-day scientists. Like that film's protagonists, Mammút feel like the first chroniclers of an unknown space".

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"Intriguing post-punk sounds from the Icelandic collective ... Kinder Versions' may not be a fully formed classic, but it demonstrates that the band's ambitions are no empty threat. "We crave to move further," Mogensen stated recently, and there should be no doubt that on this evidence, Mammút are capable of achieving just about anything".