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A FEVER YOU CAN’T SWEAT OUT

Wikipedia describes a fever dream as being “particularly intense or confusing”, which makes it perfect to represent the long-awaited third album by Icelandic indie-poppers Of Monsters And Men. Dipping and diving around a spellbinding spate of sounds that covers the entire musical spectrum, the 40-minute mammoth stands as their most diverse and dynamic effort yet.

As the band gear up to make their way Down Under for this year’s Falls Festival, we caught up with guitarist Brynjar Leifsson to riff on how Fever Dream came to life, why it took Of

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