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Agent Fresco are an Icelandic band that combines pop, alternative, art, and math rock. They formed in 2008, just weeks prior to winning the Músíktilraunir. Their first release was the EP Lightbulb Universe, which won at the Kraumur Awards. The lead singer is Arnór Dan Arnarson. Vignir Rafn Hilmarsson plays bass guitar as well as the electric upright bass, Hrafnkell Örn Guðjónsson plays the drums, and Þórarinn Guðnason plays the guitar and piano/keyboards. In late 2010, Agent Fresco released their first full-length album, A Long Time Listening. Destrier, their second full-length album, followed on 7 August 2015.
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Damn was kind of cool to see this here. I was rocking with this album a lot back when I was in college and it was new c. 2015, so it was nice to revisit songs like See Hell, Bemoan, Dark Water, etc. that I haven't listened too much in the last decade. It holds up pretty nicely
Just brilliant. Amazing drummer.
Rating: 10/10
Another one I couldn’t really remember so that means I didn’t hate it
Sound very clean, maybe too much so. Got about 5 tracks in and tghink I got what it was trying to do, and realised that that wasn’t to entertain me.
Sterile is how I would describe this. It's just too clean at times and results in it sounding passionless. My personal rating: 2/5 My rating relative to the list: 2/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.
Reminded me of Nothing But Thieves, which isn’t a good thing. A bit too theatrical and overblown for my tastes.
Not my thing
Weird blend of sterile, corporate-sounding rock with some weird djenty stabs thrown in at random. Hard to tell what kind of album the band is trying to make here, and the end result is an incredibly bland mishmash of radio-friendly rock stereotypes.