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My Head Is an Animal by Of Monsters And Men
My Head Is an Animal is an album by Of Monsters And Men, released in 2011. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 81 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Little Talks”, on 56 lists and voted number one once.
My Head Is an Animal, the debut from Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men, first came out at home on Record Records in September 2011, then went worldwide through Republic in 2012 after "Little Talks" topped the Icelandic charts. The band had formed in Gardabaer only a year earlier and won Iceland's Músíktilraunir battle of the bands, and Jacquire King produced the record.
It's indie folk built for a crowd: Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar Þórhallsson trading lead vocals like two sides of a campfire story, acoustic guitars, stomping drums from Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson and a pile of accordion, glockenspiel, melodica and trumpet filling every corner, with Brynjar Leifsson and Kristján Páll Kristjánsson on guitar and bass. "Little Talks" is the big, rousing sing-along, and it cracked the top 10 in several countries. The album title comes from a line in "Dirty Paws".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from My Head Is an Animal on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little Talks | 56 | #1 | 1 | 2011–2026 | |
| 2 | Dirty Paws | 14 | #27 | – | 2012–2025 | |
| 3 | King and Lionheart | 8 | #25 | – | 2013 | |
| 4 | Love Love Love | 3 | #18 | – | 2012–2013 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.