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Of Monsters and Men – Little Talks
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“Little Talks” debuted on Philadelphia’s Radio 104.5 to mass acclaim before Of Monsters and Men even released an album. Later, it became their first song to reach the Billboard Hot
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Of Monsters and Men – Mountain Sound
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The song describes joining a band of wanderers in the wilderness for rest and fun after travelling for a long time. It peaked on at #2 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs Chart.
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Of Monsters and Men – Crystals
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“Crystals” is the lead single and opening track from Icelandic folk rockers Of Monsters and Men’s sophomore album, Beneath the Skin.
The track is one of several songs that began
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Of Monsters and Men – Dirty Paws
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The first song on “Of Monsters and Men’s” debut album “My Head is an Animal”
“Dirty Paws” was featured in the the 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, while Mitty is in OMAM
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Of Monsters and Men – King And Lionheart
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“King and Lionheart” is the fourth single of the band’s debut album, My Head is an Animal, and is released on March 3rd 2013. The song is written by co-lead vocalist, Nanna Bryndís
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Of Monsters and Men – I Of The Storm
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“I of the Storm” compares unrelenting fear and doubt to the bitter chill of an Iceland winter storm.
“I of The Storm ” is the second single released in advance Of Monsters and Men
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Of Monsters and Men – Alligator
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The band’s first new music in nearly four years, “Alligator” was released on May 3, 2019 as the lead single from Of Monsters and Men’s third album.
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Of Monsters and Men – Wolves Without Teeth
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[Verse 1: Ragnar Þórhallsson] / Open my chest and colour my spine / I'm giving you all, I'm giving you all / Swallow my breath and take what is mine / I'm giving you all, I'm
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Of Monsters and Men – Circles
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On January 2020, Of Monsters and Men covered Post Malone’s Circles for Australian radio station triple j’s Like A Version, a weekly segment, where a musician or band is invited to
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Of Monsters and Men – Wars
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“Wars” continues the upbeat instrumentals and colorfully passionate themes of Fever Dream that were uncharacteristic of the band on previous albums. Lyrically, it compares the
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Of Monsters and Men – Hunger
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“Hunger” is the fourth and final advance single release off of Beneath the Skin, Of Monsters and Men’s second studio album.
The feeling of hunger is used to illustrate a broader
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Of Monsters and Men – Love Love Love
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“Love Love Love” was originally performed by Of Monsters and Men when the band won the Músíktilraunir, an annual music competition in Iceland. The event took place in the Reykjavík
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Of Monsters and Men – Empire
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“Empire” is the third single released in advance Of Monsters and Men’s 2015 album, Beneath the Skin. It is a narration of the metaphorical establishment of an empire, which Ragnar
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Of Monsters and Men – Yellow Light
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[Verse 1: Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir &Ragnar Þórhallsson] / I'm looking for a place to start / And everything feels so different now / Just grab a hold of my hand / I will lead
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Of Monsters and Men – Phantom
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“Phantom” is a song that was performed by Of Monsters and Men in 2010 when the band won the
Músíktilraunir, an annual music competition in Iceland. The track failed to make it to
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Of Monsters and Men – Visitor
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[Verse 1: Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir] / Let's not make this / Complicated, I know you / Last night I had the / Strangest dream that you knew me too / [Chorus: Nanna] / But you
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Of Monsters and Men – Your Bones
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[Verse 1: Ragnar Þórhallsson] / In the spring, we made a boat / Out of feathers, out of bones / We set fire to our homes / Walking barefoot in the snow / Distant rhythm of the drum
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Of Monsters and Men – Silhouettes
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“Silhouettes” is the second track from the soundtrack to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, written by Ryan Tedder, Brent Kutzle and Mikky Ekko.
Of Monsters and Men explained that
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Of Monsters and Men – Human
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[Verse 1: Ragnar Þórhallsson] / When the words weigh heavy on the heart / I am lost and led only by the stars / [Pre-Chorus: Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir & Ragnar] / Cage me like an
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Of Monsters and Men – Sloom
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Sloom is another fantastic song about how the world around us is vivid and life is worth living. It talks about how nature is very much like humans and how we are very much like it
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Of Monsters and Men – Lakehouse
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[Verse 1: Ragnar Þórhallsson, Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Nanna & Ragnar] / Oh, I miss the comfort of this house / Where we are, where we are, where we are, where we are / The
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Of Monsters and Men – From Finner
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“From Finner” describes the story of a whale that carries a house on its back, this imagery is depicted in the music video. The name “Finner” comes from fin-whale.
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Of Monsters and Men – Wild Roses
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“Wild Roses” is the second single released from Of Monsters and Men’s third project, FEVER DREAM. Its release was announced the day before it dropped, on July 11, 2019.
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Of Monsters and Men – We Sink
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“We Sink” is the final track from the standard edition of Beneath The Skin. Its lyric video was released 17 months after the album release, being the last one from the series
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Of Monsters and Men – Soothsayer
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“Soothsayer” is the eleventh track and serves as the closing track of Of Monsters and Men’s third studio album FEVER DREAM. It is an upbeat, drum-powered song that integrates the
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Of Monsters and Men – Destroyer
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[Verse 1: Ragnar Þórhallsson] / I want to be the king of my body and mind / Gravity, let me go / Before it bruises and blackens me and you / Bury me in the glow / And I find sorrow
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Of Monsters and Men – Black Water
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[Verse 1: Ragnar Þórhallsson, Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir & Ragnar] / I need nothing to travel the sea / I need nothing, I need nothing / But there's something eating at me / Black
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Of Monsters and Men – Organs
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[Verse 1] / I am sorry this is always how it goes / The wind blows loudest when you've got your eyes closed / But I never changed a single colour that I breathe / So you could have
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Of Monsters and Men – Six Weeks
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Six Weeks is based on the story of Hugh Glass. An American Frontiersman who survived an attack from a grizzly bear. More information on the attack can be found here [http://www.
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Of Monsters and Men – Skeletons (Live From Vatnagarðar)
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[Verse 1] / Lost my name / Love left dry / Frost or flames / Skeleton, me / [Chorus] / Fall asleep / Spin the sky / Skeleton, me / Love don't cry / [Verse 2] / Soon comes rain
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Of Monsters and Men – Róróró
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Ró in Icelandic means calm, translating the title to English as “Calm, calm, calm”. It is the only song of the band which has an Icelandic title.
The gentle song, accompanied by a
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Of Monsters and Men – Sinking Man
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“Sinking Man” is an acoustic song that was originally a hidden track in the Icelandic edition of My Head Is An Animal, Of Monsters and Men’s debut record; it started around the 13
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Of Monsters and Men – Sleepwalker
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The surreal images that the lyrics of the song help paint in the hearer’s mind embody the bright and colorful theme the album follows. In the song, the protagonist describes a
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Of Monsters and Men – Backyard
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1: Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Nanna & Ragnar Þórhallsson] / I live a life of love / Hold me down, hold me down / I live a life of letting go (Ooh
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Of Monsters and Men – Stuck in Gravity
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In the synth escalating ode, the protagonist expresses feeling suspended while reflecting on the dilemmas before them. Although there is confusion and desire to gain some stability
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Of Monsters and Men – Lonely Weather
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[Verse 1] / Don't feel like talkin' all too much / There is a storm that is ascending now / Feels like it's close enough to touch / So I step back into it / Lonely weather / And
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Of Monsters and Men – Ahay
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[Verse 1: Ragnar] / I know that I'm wrong / And now we're both sitting in silence / But if it's alright / I'll wrap myself around your cold shoulder / [Chorus: Ragnar & Nanna
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Of Monsters and Men – This Happiness
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[Verse 1: Ragnar Þórhallsson] / I been crawling around in mud / Chasing rivers and rubbing salt in the wound / Salt in the wound / Now I'm letting go of letting go / I feel the air
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Of Monsters and Men – Slow Life
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[Verse 1: Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir] / What are they talking about on the weekend? / Lost in the forest of this heart is a foreign still / Why are they shaking their heads? We're
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Of Monsters and Men – Under A Dome
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“Under a Dome” is the tenth track off Of Monsters and Men’s third studio album, FEVER DREAM.
The slow tempo song places the duet’s characters conversing and reflecting upon a past
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Jupiter flynn – Monsters and men
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Dad can you look underneath the bed / I think there’s someone hiding again / No i don’t wanna close my eyes / What if they attack, get me by surprise / I dreamt of a bat he had red
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Of Monsters and Men – Waiting for the Snow
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[Verse 1] / I'm waiting for the snow / I'm waiting for vision / So I can feel brighter / I can feel lighter / I used to make mountains / But then they grew bigger than me / I
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Of Monsters and Men – Vulture, Vulture
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[Verse 1: Ragnar, Both] / He lives in the darkness, he's calling my name / He's keeping me up, keeping me up, I'm wide awake / He feeds on my ego, he swallows my pain / So figure
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