#iceland nt

[kraeki]

So I know most of you are only thinking about friendlies this international break but my national team Iceland is actually being forced to play Euro playoffs against Israel in a few days. Israel is the “home” nation for the match but Iceland refused to go there so Hungary will host on behalf of Israel. Unfortunately the Icelandic team has kind of sucked recently, but I really hope they have a rare moment of brilliance on Thursday, Israel has absolutely no business going to the Euros this summer!!

Iceland’s manager enraged Israeli media and sports personalities with this:

“UEFA takes care of all the rules in this and we are part of UEFA. If we don’t play we will be banned and risk further punishment by not playing another member nation. But if you ask me personally, I would hesitate to play Israel, as it stands now. Because of what is going on in Gaza, and because of what they have done to women, children and other innocent citizens. It shouldn’t be done, and we shouldn’t be playing this game if you ask me. But we have to play because the consequences would be so great for Iceland if we didn’t.”

I thank him for not staying silent and wish him and his team the best of luck on Thursday 🙏

#iceland nt

[ipswichtowns]

still in denial about iceland missing out on the euros again :(

#happy for ukraine of course but... we were so close to getting iceland at an international tournament again :(( #kinda hurts that this is the second time in a row it's been a playoff final loss as well... #iceland nt

[ferrari-desmosedici-wwe-fc]

Thanks for the spectacular show Iceland!

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#Iceland nt #Iceland national team #Albert Guðmundsson #Euro 2024 qualifying #Euro 2024 qualifications

[anytimebitchess]

Match highlights:

* most abt Ruben

Ruben bulling Bernardo.

Ruben spitting.

Ronaldo getting a yellow.

Ruben tugging up his shorts.

My brother and his friend sneaking in to the stands.

A friend of my brother’s getting on the pitch.

Ronaldo being frustrated for not being able to score 2727x

Ronaldo playing like shit for 80 minutes.

Rúnar finally woke up and was unstoppable with these saves.

Ruben falling.

Ruben slaying.

Joao Felix hair looking reddish under the Iceland sun.

Bernardo being MOTM.

Ruben bending down and shaking his ass in my direction.

Iceland’s squad called up their barbarian ancestors.

Ruben waving and smiling in my direction when he was on the bus.

Bernardo Silva is REALLY smol 🤏🏼

Vitinha too.

Pepe looking fierce.

Alfred Finnbogason plying Italian.

Rafael Leao is actually magnificent.

SIUU

Ronaldo setting a world record.

#I’ll probably think of more but these stick out the more to me #iceland nt #portugal nt #football #memories

[calciopics]

UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 - Italy 1-1 Iceland

Manchester City Academy Stadium - Manchester Group D

Karólína Lea Vilhjálmsdóttir 3′

Valentina Bergamaschi 62′

#UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 #Group D #Italy #Azzurra #nazionale italiana #Iceland NT #Karólína Lea Vilhjálmsdóttir #Valentina Bergamaschi #football #fussball #fußball #foot #fodbod #futbol #futebol #soccer #calcio

[ceruleanharley]

not croatia and morocco playing their opening match together and now playing their last match together we've come full circle. sounds like soulmates to me

#croatia and iceland became besties last world cup #this time we caught morocco #football is actually about love #world cup #croatia nt #morocco nt #wc22 #world cup 2022

[getting-messi]

Messi really went from this

To this💃🏾🤩🙏🏾

#like remember how he was rubbing his head like that DURINF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM at the 2018 World Cup after they lost to Iceland!??? #things were BADDDD #and then the screenshot was when he was Barca and coming back from international break and grieasymann’s uncle was chatting shit about him #LIKE WE REALLY WENT THROUGH THE DARK AGES #WE UP NOW BABYYYYYYYY #Lionel Messi #Argentina #Argentina nt #inter Miami #my post

[justisco]

big up the iceland nt <3

#you are forgiven for the euro 2016 trauma you gave me

[kraeki]

GIRL CONGRATS 🫡🇮🇸

Thank you!! I don’t usually like this lot very much but today I’m very proud of them 🙏 they had never won a game against Israel before and they had a horrendous Euro qualifiers campaign so I really didn’t expect them to pull this off!! But Israel flopped so hard tonight, their only goal was a penalty, they missed another penalty and a player got a straight red card.

Nobody was feeling comfortable about playing Israel, the commentators kept mentioning their discomfort because how much tension was in the air and they were trying to be diplomatic but one of them implied heavily that he sensed a lot of hostility. Iceland has for a long time been a generally pro-Palestine nation and Israel is very aware of that fact, there is no love lost between us.

So, I’m really happy about the win! Not only for my country that now still has a chance of a Euro spot, but mostly because Israel being at the Euros this summer while they actively commit war crimes would’ve been so wrong in so many ways.

#ask: domzobo #iceland nt

[ipswichtowns]

Iceland u21s chose violence against Liechtenstein tonight holy fuck

#i'm super happy they got such an amazing result but... brutal for liechtenstein tbh #iceland nt

[ferrari-desmosedici-wwe-fc]

Albert Guðmundsson Hat-Trick 🤩🇮🇸💙❤️

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#Iceland nt #Albert Guðmundsson #Euro 2024 qualifying #Euro 2024 qualifications #🇮🇸 #🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸

[anytimebitchess]

Y’all *chuckle*🤭 Ronaldo is suffering

#Iceland is cooking #iceland nt #portugal nt

[joemuggs]

Albums of 2023 part 2

And so, on from part 1, we continue. This is more dreamy synth-dub that sits perfectly next to the Harrow album: Richard Norris is another artist with an extraordinarily long and illustrious career but who also has never lost the exploratory urge and total delight in sonic finesse.

Honestly Uruguayan-in-Ireland Lila Tirando a Violeta is right up there with the very best of the "deconstructed club" generation - dark, gothic, complex, VERY WEIRD - and this collab with Berliner Sin Maldita is up there with her best. It's really, REALLY intense!

Just impossibly beautiful elegies from ambient harpist Mary Lattimore which builds towards the final track collaboration with Slowdive's Rachel Goswell that is so lovely it will single handedly bring back swooning as a popular pastime.

Officially an EP but there's enough here to cement Nia Archives's place as a heavyweight - add "Off Wiv Ya Headz" and that Jorja Smith remix, and she's had a humdinger of a 2023....

Saw some discourse suggesting that Burna Boy is resting on his laurels here, but I don't hear it. Maybe it's the fact that the cover looks dashed-off? But musically, this bangs: it expertly joins so many dots but keeps his voice and personality right at the heart of it.

I mean come on there was no way a collab between Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist was going to be anything but good, right? Just purest essence of deep and dreamy stoner hip hop. Yet another small (27min) but beautifully formed album - definitely a trend there.

Feels kind of (literally) sacrilegious to say I prefer Cleo Sol's more personal, less scriptural records (e.g. Rose in the Dark) - and this is, top to bottom, a gospel album - but the conviction to her performance and the whole realisation of it here is still really magical.

From Coventry via Skopje, man like NOT_MDK's first album in 23 years, and he's zooming into the deep flows that join grime and dubstep into the longer, deeper electronic funk continuum... These tracks are so crisp and crunchy!

She's from Turkey but Ahu's been plugged into the London Plastic People / NTS / etc scene for years - file this with Yazmin Lacey and similar LDN soul-jazz, also it's very Boho and vibesy and incensey, definitely one to light your best candles for.

Can't remember who put me on to this, possibly Radio 3? Anyway if cold wet misty Scottish hillsides are your jam Claire M Singer has you covered - these slower-than-slowly unfolding organ-led pieces practically smell of wet moss, and are extremely beautiful.

He's lent vocals to a who's who of electronic music, but it turns out Paul St Hilaire's own studio craft is the equal of just about any of them - this is just a stunning, ocean-deep album of dub abstraction and subtly potent lyricism.

Icelander Eva Jóhannsdóttir aka EVA808 has already made a name in the dubstep/grime world but this is her really spreading her creative wings. Mad psychedelia, elemental abstraction, movie-theme composition - there's not much she can't do. Big things beckon!

There's still SO much to say about amapiano, and so much incredible UK, SA and wider world stuff last year (this isn't even the only great DJ Maphorisa album - he had THREE out in 2023, including a mini album with Shino Kikai and a 25-track one with fellow originator Kabza De Small!!). Suffice to say this has gorgeous songs, primal grooves, endlessly sophisticated mixdowns and bass that'll take your breath away.

Just gonna link to my review for this one (it's got the music embedded) - but TL;DR Darren J Cunningham aka Actress is the holy prophet of the era of enshittification, yet for all that his music is constantly "off" and made for a world that is "off", he alchemises it into real gold.

Yeah I'm going to be THAT space-jazz hipster and say this is the record I wish Andre3000 (who is on it, and Carlos Niño co-produced his album) had made. It's just a more lavish, free, FUN way to cavort with the five-dimensional fractal machine elves.

Zoning in on the platonic breakbeat mathematics that underly Jersey / B'more club Chicago hip house, UK rave, trip hop etc, Bored Lord could seem arch or retro if her beats weren't so gloriously functional and bumping.

Fed up of generic records? You will never EVER find another one that sounds like IFS MA. Polish abstract slightly Autechre-y footwork / drum'n'bass with Japanese rapper MA sounding like a cyborg beat poet Taliban Trim and I.... 🤯

Every man jack and their dog are doing high bpm retro rave lately but you can trust Meemo Comma to put a fresh and uneasy twist on it. These tracks will get you proper buzzing up loud! I got to DJ for her live performance of this at Spiritland earlier in the year, hearing them on that system was a real treat.

You get a twofer with this one. Phil Kieran's ode to Belfast is gorgeous in studio form here, but he also recorded and released a version with the Ulster Orchestra that single handedly revivifies the idea of electronic music done classical style!

Two true underground troupers teaming up here - Jordan GCZ from Juju & Jordash and David "Move D" Moufang with some otherworldly good-dream ambient, deep house and space-soul jams heavy on the Fender Rhodes, fuzzy reverberation and sensually sweeping portamento.

My musical safe place for so much of this year. Brooklyn "electronic jam band" Purelink somehow burrowed into electronic music history and found the softest, happiest, warmest fur lined chamber and then invited us in. I cannot emphasise enough how LOVELY this record is.

More modular synth grooves from E Ruscha aka Secret Circuits, but no over-indulgence here and the grooves REALLY DO GROOVE. Trippy as a weasel circus and twice as funky.

Talking of trippy, here's Optimo Music's second acid-drenched entry, from the man formerly known as TB Arthur and the mighty Magda trading as Blotter Trax, it's a kind of parallel universe early 80s alt disco where everything gurgles and melts.

More from South Africa - King Mzaiza Sound via the reliably tough Parisian PSSNGR label - not 100% sure what you'd call this though it definitely has some gqom sonics, some trap drums, and some strident rap vocals... It's HARD AS NAILS is what it is.

EVEN HARDER - Nyege Nyege brought us a sampler of this (and I don't use mental health language lightly) FUCKING MENTAL shrieking, raging, solvent-huffing sound from São Paulo stewarded by the young DJ K, and it's extremely funky and scarily thrilling.

OK there we go, part three is here.....

#music #acid house #alt disco #dub #modular synth #psychedelia #South African music #amapiano #gqom #rap #stoner rap #hip hop #odd future #ambient #electronica #Japanese music #polish music #experimental rap #grime #drum'n'bass #footworking #deep house #breakbeat #rave #jungle #soundtrack #belfast #london #space jazz #Icelandic music

[prettiestcowgirl]

Love the idea of the pretentious guy I used to talk to looking at the kpop on my Spotify playlists

We used to make each other playlists, and talk about eighties manga, wong kar wai, nts radio, and sadly for me, Michael Houellebecq. I left him Bjork and Evangelion as my legacy. He went to Iceland before me. I’d like to break his legs for that.

He was nice. Nicer than a lot of the guys I talked to. I am just very tired of people who want to be looked at as very cultured or intelligent. I am very tired of people who are the counter personality of this as well. Do not base yourself off of being different than other people. We are made up of everyone around us and everyone has something to offer. Rejecting connection because of a particular taste in media will seem so silly when I am rotting away in a bed somewhere.

But I digress, I just want to listen to some kpop. I don’t need to write a book about it.

#headspace

[getting-messi]

Ranking of some of my favorite “arguments” from Messi antis/R****** fans 💀💀💀

1. The WC is rigged

Pure laziness. Offers no actual explanation as to how they would feasibly pull this off. Did they deliberately let Saudi Arabia win to make it look less suspicious? Did they deliberately eliminate Brazil so that Argentina would have an “easier” semifinal? Did Messi personally pay off the entire France NT to ensure they’d play like shit and Mbappe just missed the memo somehow? 🤷‍♀️ 0/10

2. Euro Cup is more prestigious than World Cup

Ah yes, because this WC has totally proven the superiority of European football compared to the rest of the world 💀💀💀 Requires some mental gymnastics though, I’ll give them that. 3/10 for effort

3. Argentina just has a Good Team (TM) and Messi got carried

Try walking up to anyone before the final and claim that Argentina has a better team than France on paper and see if they don’t laugh in your face 💀 No disrespect to the Argentina NT of course (esp Dibu, Julian, Enzo, etc.) — they’ve proven how well they work together as a unit — but please be fucking fr. -100000/10 maybe try watching some actual matches before talking shit lmaooo

LMAOOOOO I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS😭😂

are people actually saying that the Euros is bigger than the world cup????😵😵 When the literal European champions failed to qualify for the world cup and got eliminated by *checks notes*...North Macedonia???? 💀

And omg the Messi got carried by a good team argument is SOOOOOO funny to me especially now that Ronald Mcdonald fans are saying that that is the only reason why Messi is a world cup champion and their criminal doesn't have a good team with Portugal🤣🤣🤣 Like all i have to say is go look at Argentina's world cup performance in 2018 like EVERY single match and then tell me if that is a 'good team'. They lost against Croatia 3-0???? They TIED against Iceland and Messi had a penalty saved by guy who is a dentist full time (lord did we hear that a lot), we miraculously won vs Nigeria and then despite the match finishing 4-3, we played HORRIFICLY against France. Add onto the fact that they JUST BARELY qualified for the world cup on the LAST possible qualifier match. People love forgetting these things and how the players were literally coaching themselves because of how terribly Sampoali was😒 Scaloni was the assistant manager during that world cup and took the job and this is 4 years of his hard work.

A commentator highlighted it like this, he said Argentina used to play as Messi + 10 players and now they play as 10 players + Messi - signifying how they are finally playing together and not just relying solely on messi like they used to since 2014.

#and as for that crook and portugal - they literally play better without him and we saw that quite clearly #so lets save that BS #and the difference between france and argentina in the final was that Argentina were the better TEAM for 120 minutes #but these takes are SO FUNNY #did you see Di maria's wife call out that waste of a man Rami???🤣 SHE IS SO ICONIC