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Iceland Music News commentary on Neyslutrans - translation
In February 2020, Neyslutrans was featured as RĂĄs 2's Album of the Week on the radio. The format of the show would usually involve playing through the album, with the artists commenting on each song before it starts; however, in true Hatari style, instead of commenting on their own work, Hatari instead sent Iceland Music News to do the commentary. The result is pretty hilarious, in the usual dry, sardonic style of anything associated with Hatari. Full translation (of their bits) below.
Introduction
DĂSA: We are media outlet Iceland Music News, the country's most honest media outlet.
GUĂMUNDUR: Yes. And possibly the entire world's.
HĂKON: And thus probably the most honest media outlet that's stepped into the RĂV studio.
GUĂMUNDUR: It's a sweet duty for us to present RĂĄs 2's Album of the Week, which is Neyslutrans, by award-winning band Hatari.
HĂKON: To wit, my name is HĂĄkon and I'm the editor for Iceland Music News; VigdĂs is the assistant program director and thought the album was called Neysludans [Consumption Dance] but I corrected her just earlier, it's actually called Neyslutrans.
GUĂMUNDUR: And I'm GuĂ°mundur Einar and I'm the CEO of Iceland Music News.
DĂSA: It should be mentioned that I'm usually called DĂsa and I'm the program director and handle all published material. Well, the members of Hatari declined to present this album, and thus we were recruited for the job.
HĂKON: Right. As we understand it, they weren't offered enough money to introduce the Album of the Week, and therefore we were asked to come, and of course we jumped at the opportunity as soon as we had the chance.
DĂSA: Yes.
GUĂMUNDUR: Yes. It's of course amazing to get to introduce a masterpiece of this kind. The foreign media are tripping over themselves to declare this album the best album of all time.
DĂSA: Yes, exactly. It's a great honour for us as a nation that the songs will be performed at Hatari's release concert in AusturbĂŠr on February 22nd-23rd, and to perform such a masterwork live, as you say, is just... there are no words.
HĂKON: None. And we furthermore want to underline the great honour that it is to present this album. It's a masterpiece, and honestly I think masterpiece isn't a strong enough word to fully encompass the quality of it. But without further ado, here is the album of the week.
DĂSA: Neyslutrans.
HĂKON: Enjoy.
DĂSA: The band known as Hatari is composed of Einar Hrafn StefĂĄnsson, Klemens NikulĂĄsson Hannigan and MatthĂas Tryggvi Haraldsson, who composed and arranged the songs and lyrics on the album.
GUĂMUNDUR: But of course, in creating a piece like this, a multitude of other artists come into it as well. And what a list of magnificent artists. It will become clear when we play the songs. We should add that the album was recorded by publisher Svikamylla ehf.
HĂKON: In Panama.
GUĂMUNDUR: In Panama.
Engin miskunn
HĂKON: The first song on the album is called "Engin miskunn" [No Mercy], and the title really says everything that needs to be said. There is no mercy from the greatness of this song. The quality exceeds all measurements, and the listener is shown no mercy as it is played.
DĂSA: No.
GUĂMUNDUR: As the lyrics say, "Glory will descend upon the earth / All the Earth's children's doomsday drawing near". That's the feeling I felt when I heard this song.
DĂSA: Absolutely. I completely agree. You could just feel the glory taking over your...
GUĂMUNDUR: Body.
DĂSA: Body. It's worth noting that it was MagnĂșs Leifsson who directed a music video for this song, one of the most respected directors in Iceland.
HĂKON: "Most respected" doesn't even cover how revered he is within the industry.
GUĂMUNDUR: Yeah. And this song is what's called the 'single' of the album, and is, so to speak, the outward face of the album.
HĂKON: Yes, exactly. And the glue that holds the album together.
DĂSA: Yes. We said the listener is shown no mercy in listening to this song, but of course that applies to the entire album, even though it's unusual for an album to begin with such a... really the best song.
GUĂMUNDUR: Yeah, this is the best song.
HĂKON: Yeah. We could say it applies to the entire album but perhaps especially this one, "Engin miskunn". There's no mercy in this, and this is really the song on the album.
Spillingardans
HĂKON: The next song on the album is called "Spillingardans". This is a magnificent song, and it's of course a special honour for Iceland Music News to have been the media organization present interviewing Hatari when the first clips from the music video for the song had yet to be released - so Iceland Music News was the first media outlet in Iceland to publish a clip from the video for "Spillingardans", and it's a really special honour because this song is, in most people's opinion, by far the best song on the album. If you were to apply some kind of adjective to it, there would be a lot of them, but this song is very barbed. Yet at the same time, the end of the barb is soft. The song says, "The watchful hand of the oppressor", and the oppressor in this case is the dishonest media, for instance, and, um, a lot of other things. But the song is called "Spillingardans", and I ask you to listen well, because this is the best song on the album. It could be mentioned that "Spillingardans" was originally released as a single, as one individual thing published by itself, in 2018, and the song is based on a song of the same name by the duo PlatĂł.
KlĂĄmstrĂĄkur
DĂSA: It's a great honour for us at Iceland Music News to present the album Neyslutrans by Hatari, and especially for me to present the song "KlĂĄmstrĂĄkur", because if you listen to this song, I think most people can hear the lyrics and think, "Yes. Yes, I am a filthy boy." And it's especially an honour because this is, without a doubt, the best song on the album. It was released as a single last year and it only gets better with each listen. Klemens gets to come out and play in this song, where he kind of raps in parts, and I can only speak for myself, but my image of Klemens changed greatly. You could say something deepened there. This is the song "KlĂĄmstrĂĄkur" by Hatari.
Klefi/Samed
GUĂMUNDUR: The next song is the song "Klefi" or "Samed", by Hatari and Palestinian musician Bashar Murad. We at Iceland Music News have been lucky enough to meet Bashar a few times and interview him, and I can state for the record that he is one of the most magnificent artists to ever set foot in Iceland.
DĂSA: Can I add that he is also very polite?
GUĂMUNDUR: Very polite.
HĂKON: Unique.
GUĂMUNDUR: And a good boy. Samed means to be steadfast, and is widely used in the struggle for Palestinian rights. It's a special honour for me to introduce the song "Klefi/Samed" because this is in many people's opinions perhaps the very best song on this album, and thus in the history of Icelandic music. "I walk barefoot in the clouds," sings Bashar, "worthy," but when I listen to this song, I wonder if I am worthy. Either way it's a great blessing to be able to enjoy music of this caliber. "I am whole, and I am warm," and that's how you feel when you listen to this song.
ĂrĂŠll
DĂSA: The song "ĂrĂŠll" by Hatari is a new song on the album Neyslutrans by Hatari. In this song, Klemens presents a lovely contemplation on submissiveness, which I think will touch most people. This is without a doubt the best song on the album. It has been very well received, both in Italy and Poland and other places, and when I say well received I mean a lot of people sing along, and of course it has been widely praised. There is a piece of the lyrics that speaks to me; it's "You yank me, throw me around; you slap me on the cheek." I think this song does that to me. It yanks me, throws me around, slaps me on the cheek, and after listening, I come out of it a slightly better person. This is the song "ĂrĂŠll" by Hatari from the album Neyslutrans.
Hlauptu
HĂKON: The next song is called "Hlauptu" by Hatari. I feel a little bad to be presenting this song, because to present a song like this in a time like this is really more than I am capable of. This song is, by every measure, by far the best song on the album, and there's just no way around that. The song "Hlauptu" is an incredible work of lyricism, an incredible song in every way, incredible artists working on it along with Hatari, it's Cyber that wrote it with Hatari. Cyber and Hatari traveled around Europe on the "Europe Will Crumble" tour where they conquered not only Europe but the entire world with this song, and if I just Google "Cyber" [typing noises] and press Enter, I get a lot of varied information about this song, which, uh, shows how big this song is. "Hlauptu" by Hatari!
HatriĂ° mun sigra
GUĂMUNDUR: So, the next song on the album is a decent song.
HĂKON: Yeah, it's a decent song. It's... you can debate its merits, as people have. But a decent song, sure, we of course are a media organization and must be fair and honest in our reporting, so, decent, I don't know.
GUĂMUNDUR: Fine. It's fine.
DĂSA: I'm - if we're going to have honesty as our guide I just have to permit myself to say that the lyrics of this song... I just don't know. I think it's too dark.
HĂKON: I kind of have to agree with that. See, I'm just going to read a bit...
DĂSA: I just had to say it.
GUĂMUNDUR: Perhaps it should be mentioned that the next song is "HatriĂ° mun sigra".
HĂKON: By Hatari.
DĂSA: Yeah - I can't even say that title.
HĂKON: And, and... let's see this, "Hate will prevail, Europe will crumble."
DĂSA: No.
HĂKON: I think it's distasteful. This is not in any way appropriate for our children to hear.
GUĂMUNDUR: No, that's the question.
HĂKON: Because you can say whatever you like about Eurovision, and reversing it, and that really they mean there should be peace and so on.
DĂSA: Yeah, blah blah blah.
HĂKON: But they're saying that hate will prevail and Europe will crumble. Under no circumstances is it healthy for children to hear that.
DĂSA: No.
HĂKON: And now the coronavirus is coming, and this is not a joke!
DĂSA: HĂĄkon, I - sure, we are here to present the album of the week on behalf of Hatari, and I think we've entered a gray area, but we as the media outlet Iceland Music News, we just have to tell it like it is. We speak when others are silent. And I'm glad this has been said.
HĂKON: Nonetheless...
GUĂMUNDUR: Nonetheless, this song is... fine. And it will be performed, along with every other song on the album, at Hatari's release concert in AusturbĂŠr.
HĂKON: Yes, February 22nd and 23rd, for those who are interested. This song will of course be performed there, and who knows, perhaps if the audience shouts "Again! Again!" loudly enough, they'll perform it for a second time. Who knows?
GUĂMUNDUR: It should be said that the version on the album is a bit longer than the one performed in the Eurovision Song Contest, and this improved it significantly.
DĂSA: Yeah, that's true.
HĂKON: Yeah, it did. One thing to say for this song, and the band Hatari, it got a lot better when it no longer had to obey the strict rules of Eurovision.
GUĂMUNDUR: We are Iceland Music News and the next song is the song "HatriĂ° mun sigra", by Hatari.
HĂKON: We at Iceland Music News of course recommend that listeners listen to these two songs together in one stew, so to speak, so that the former song precedes the latter. By Hatari.
DĂSA: Yes. I think it's very original to have two songs go together like this, and I think it's the unanimous opinion of the editorial board that this is the best song on the album.
GUĂMUNDUR: Yes.
HĂKON: Yes. It's the best piece.
GUĂMUNDUR: Best piece.
DĂSA: Piece of music.
HĂKON: This part of this work of art is really what glues it all together, what gives it life as art that we can benefit from, not just us, the individuals of Iceland Music News, or us the individuals who work at Iceland Music News as news reporters working in a difficult environment, but also we who love Hatari.
GUĂMUNDUR: Yes.
DĂSA: Yes.
HĂKON: And have listened to Hatari. And we who love music, we can say that too. And that's why there's no way around why this piece is the core of the piece of art that is the album.
DĂSA: These are the songs "Spectavisti me mori" and "14 ĂĄr", by Hatari.
HĂKON: And we thank Hatari for this.
ĂgleĂ°i
GUĂMUNDUR: We are Iceland Music News, and the next song is "ĂgleĂ°i" [Nausea]. But nausea doesn't have to be a bad feeling.
DĂSA: No.
GUĂMUNDUR: Sometimes you experience nausea when emotions overwhelm you and the art overpowers the body.
DĂSA: Exactly. That said, it is right to present this song with a disclaimer, as if you have acid reflux, it has been known to cause the acidity or Ph value of the stomach, which should be around 3 - it has been known to raise it to around 3.333, which can cause a certain illness. It should be stated; we won't sugarcoat it.
HĂKON: Yes. We at Iceland Music News must state this. We're proud of it.
DĂSA: Yes. It's important information. But it's an amusing coincidence nonetheless that 3.333 is not unlike 3,333 ISK, which happens to be the ticket price for children under 18 for Hatari's release concert, which will take place on February 23rd.
HĂKON: In AusturbĂŠr. And Iceland Music News of course wants to use this opportunity to express our deepest gratitude to our sponsors. It's a variety of sponsors, such as... many, who have taken part in supporting us with various grants that we have accepted, and we are grateful to be able to accept such grants, to make it possible for us to sit here and talk about the song "ĂgleĂ°i" by Hatari, which is indisputably the most important song on this album.
GUĂMUNDUR: As the lyrics to the song say, "Everything that trembled shattered like glass; what was inside me, it wasn't me." Dear listener, let the music shatter your soul like glass, so that a more perfect self may be rebuilt from the ruin.
HelvĂti
HĂKON: We at Iceland Music News are very proud to present the next song, the song "HelvĂti" [Hell] by Hatari, and this is, as the title suggests, a hellishly good song, if you'll indulge me. And of course, to say something is hellishly good really means it's so good you need to curse to emphasize it. I'd rather not curse, I did it just now for the sake of the example, but I won't do it again. We at Iceland Music News are thus saying that it simply cannot be emphasized enough how good this song is. The song is called "HelvĂti". And the lyrics can be quoted - it should be noted that Svarti Laxness is part of this song, also known as Stinni Steins. The song says, "a constant hardon". This is something that's not good for anyone, to have a constant hardon. I've heard that four hours is a very long time, but constant is something I cannot even imagine, and that probably happens only in the purest of hells. And no one wants to be there.
DĂSA/GUĂMUNDUR: [suppressed chuckling]
HĂKON: These are very explicit descriptions of what happens in the hottest of hells, which makes it incredibly evocative, and it really touches people deeply, and perhaps even cuts them.
GUĂMUNDUR: That's right, HĂĄkon. And we should mention that we are approaching the end of the album, the end of this great journey that the album has been. And at this point we've reached Hell. The destruction of capitalism has here reached its peak, and the album describes in great detail the environments and experiences of Hell.
Nunquam iterum/NiĂ°urlĂșt
DĂSA: We've come to the end of the album Neyslutrans by Hatari.
HĂKON: Iceland Music News, here with you.
DĂSA: Well, an end but also a new beginning, you could say. Or a kind of...
HĂKON: Lullaby?
DĂSA: Yes, it's a lullaby; we're being led into a new world. These are two songs strung together, which is extremely original. It's "Nunquam iterum, Op. 12" - Nunquam iterum means "Never again".
GUĂMUNDUR: Yes. And it's fun to note that the members of Hatari are great academics and speak fluent Latin, just like us at Iceland Music News.
HĂKON: Behind the masks, there are voracious readers and bookworms.
GUĂMUNDUR: And this is followed by the song "NiĂ°urlĂșt", which is the final song of the album. Both of these songs are written to the same lyrics.
HĂKON: Both of these artists are of course great friends of Iceland Music News and have of course boosted our reputation.
GUĂMUNDUR: This song is no less than magnificent.
DĂSA: No. I'll permit myself to say this is the best song on the album. A subjective opinion, some would say, but I am basing this on my education and experience in the music business.
GUĂMUNDUR: Yes.
HĂKON: This song being the best song is just not up for debate.
GUĂMUNDUR: This is the end of this incredible journey.
