Supersport!’s music is sweet – it should be. They remain primarily interested in pop music and what it can offer when deconstructed infinitely, exploring the guitar as a tool for storytelling and expressivity. Singing together, harmonising, as a way of being together, practicing friendship and solidarity. Like a dear friend said once: our love is rock, but it’s pop.
The group was formed in manic excitement on the dancefloor of a now-vanished Reykjavík bar on a late night a few summers ago. This moment of conception has perhaps foreshadowed the ways in which the group has operated since, driven by excitement and urgency to create.
Hailing from the grassroots of Reykjavík’s vibrant music scene, Supersport! remain champions of the DIT (do-it-together) ideology, as members Bjarni, Dagur, Hugi and Þóra have all been active participants of the iconic Post-dreifing collective since it was founded in 2018. This work has deeply influenced their values, the way they create and how they relate to their community and their fans.
On the upcoming album “allt sem hefur gerst” Supersport! are at their most vulnerable yet. Still, playfulness remains at the heart of the piece, as they seek ways to contextualise formative experience; making sense of chaotic pain and progress, regret and joy. Opening track, “gráta smá” is perhaps the most jarring example with singer Bjarni Daníel drawing comparisons between himself and his father and his father’s father; discovering the likenesses and feeling in them both deep pride and existential terror.