# Radar Love – Icelandic Synth Pop Duo Jane Telephonda

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2015/12/radar-love-icelands-jane-telephonda/
- Published: 2015-12-08T10:55:16-05:00
- Author: flytrap

We are always down for listening to new bands from Iceland. Do we need to say – 
Sigur Ros, Bjork, Olafur Arnalds – that there is something so moving, poignant and
joyous in the music of so many artists from the enchanting and mystical northernmost
Atlantic isle.

Now there is a new band starting to make headway on and beyond the ancient Nordic
land; and we can see why. **Jane Telephonda** of Kópavogur City.

We love the reverb-oozing vocals, the hard-driving snare and bass drum beats, the
soaring synths and the infectious melodies and harmonies from the verses through
the uplifting choruses on the new single, “Transmuted Saltness.” It has that put-
it-on-repeat quality about it.

Jane Telephonda are the husband and wife duo **Ívar Páll Jónsson** and **Ásdís Rósa
Þórðardóttir**. Their unique blend of influences are inspired by the sounds of the
classics to the contemporaries, including David Bowie, Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, Grizzly
Bear, Of Montreal, and Queen.

The couple are not, however, new to the world of music.

Jónsson began playing guitar and recording his own music on a four-track at the 
age of 16. Fast-forward to 2011: he begins writing for his 2014 concept album, _Revolution
in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter_, which ultimately earns Jónsson
a nomination for the 2014 **Icelandic Music Awards**. The album received rave reviews
in the U.S. coinciding with its theatrical stage adaption at the Minetta Lane Theater
in NYC in the summer of 2014.

Along with the undeniably gifts of his wife, who also performed on ‘Revolution’ 
the duo of Jane Telephonda are bound to make waves of their own with their newest
venture.

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You’re probably wondering what’s up with the name?

It’s kind of a crazy thing. Þórðardóttir loves Jane Fonda as an actress. So, when
the couple’s fourth child came along, they combined the Jane Fonda fixation with
Jónsson’s love of phones – and wah-lah – the name Jane Telephonda. But it wouldn’t
just be the band name; they named the child Jane Telephonda too.

I know, right?…

It just makes the music all that more inviting to us because it’s so punk. JT: Stay
crazy and keep pumping out those melodic, hook-friendly synth pop anti-folk-ish 
beats.

[Jane Telephonda on Facebook](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/janetelephonda)

[Jane Telephonda official website](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/janetelephonda.com)