UTIDUR at the Gladstone, Friday, June 15. Rating: NNN
It couldn’t have been an easy or inexpensive feat for eight of Útidúr‘s ten members to travel all the way from Iceland to Toronto for NXNE (they’re also on a Canadian tour with Brasstronaut), but just as impressive was their ambitious take on chamber-pop.
With electric violin, trumpet and stunningly high soprano vocals cutting through the Gladstone hubbub, the young-looking band’s cheery symphonics – frequently offset by more dissonant and dramatic Old World folk – made an impression.
