“Wars” by Of Monsters And Men

"Wars" is on Fever Dream, the third album from Iceland's Of Monsters and Men, released through Republic on July 26, 2019. Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar Þórhallsson wrote it and sing it, and the credits lean hard on machines: synthesizers from Ragnar, Brynjar Leifsson and Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson, a sampler alongside Leifsson's guitar, Hilmarsson on drums and percussion, Kristján Páll Kristjánsson on bass and Steingrímur Teague on piano.

That fits the album's backstory. Nanna had grown tired of writing on acoustic guitar, which kept leading her somewhere predictable, so she moved to a laptop at home to chase new sounds, and she called the result poppier and brighter than 2015's Beneath the Skin. Rich Costey co-produced with the band and mixed, and Martin Cooke engineered.

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