Staring into space of Oyama

Beautiful, spacious and covered with a mystical fog. With a bit psychedelic and impressive elements of dream-pop but still hold in frames of 90s alternative rock. Oyama, our one and only Icelandic shoe gaze band these days. I have enjoyed following their stage progress since early 2013 when they released a debut EP and heard them live so many times that it automatically raises the bar of my expectations. On Thursday evening, April 30th, Oyama clambered to the stage at Húrra to warm up the crowd waiting with a beer in hands for Agent Fresco. The founder of this shoegazers’ gang, a guitarist and one of vocalists Úlfur Alexander Einarsson, was surrounded by his wonderful friends, beautiful minds, and together they presented material from the first full length album in the band´s career entitled Coolboy. Certainly, if someone asked me I would tell without even a second of hesitation that it´s the best album of 2014. Moreover, a man of genius – Pétur Ben – put his fingers on the pulse of Coolboy as a producer (and as we all know whatever he touches turns into gold). But back to the point, Oyama rocks and has done that more or less since 2012. Consequently, they make skilfully a landscape of some kind of fragile beauty. They grow bigger with every performance still searching for new ways to express themselves and you can hear it in their expansive sound. It may be dreamy and foggy but is still dynamic and light