Style:
Indie/ Singer/ songwriter
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Releases:
I Belive in This (12T008, 2004)
Anarchists are hopeless romantics (12T018, 2005) Activism (12T044, 2008)

Young mister Þórir Georg Jónsson is a sensation. A poetic pop-geyser and one man band/singer songwriter of rare magnitude, peaking red on all meters and by all standards, brimming with lo-fi poetic originality, taking you places you would not expect, his music could be said to recall Elliott Smith, Xiu Xiu, The Microphones, Postal Service and why not a Nick Drake surrounded by dusted half-broken cables often used by Cex. When Þórir, pronounced "Thorir", is not trashing his electrical guitars in Reykjavik's most extreme hardcore bands he is bitter and sweet and calls himself My Summer As A Salvation Soldier (aka Thorir), an artist name that even surpasses Duran Duran in coolness.

Þórir is just twenty two years old, hails from a small sea village in the North of Iceland but today he lives in Reykjavik, the only and obvious spot for a young man full of ideas and literally living and breathing music. Besides being his alter self as My Summer As A Salvation Soldier, Þórir plays guitar in two hardcore bands, Fighting Shit and Hrydjuverk, and he also plays in one hip hop-band, one country-trash band named Death Metal Super squad and finally the ultra powerhouse Gavin Portland destined for future glory.

I BELIVE IN THIS was recorded in a little bit over two days and then mixed in four days. The first song to impact on the Icelandic music lovers, was a cover version of Outcast's "Hey Ya!", and it became the first hit from the album and a very special video followed which was shot in one take only.

After a busy and an eventful year for Þórir, My Summer As A Salvation Soldier, was nominated as "Best Newcomer of the year 2004" at the Icelandic Music Awards.
Now Þórir has released his second album at 12 Tónar, ANARCHISTS ARE HOPELESS ROMANTICS, which has received great reviews and a great praise from critics such as David Fricke himself.

His third album entitled ACTIVISM is expected to see the light of day in early 2008.

Press:

‘I didn't see anything Icelandic that had that Next Big Export smell -- yet. But I heard much that reminded me why I keep returning, and why I have been continually intrigued by the original music made here, since my first trip in 1988. After Jose Gonzalez gently wowed the afternoon shoppers at 12 Tonar, a young Icelander, Thorir (the Anglicized spelling) reduced the room to total silence with his skeletal guitar work and boyish vocal sadness. His two albums, I Believe in This and My Summer as a Salvation Soldier, released by 12 Tonar on its own quality label, are stunning documents of the darkness endemic to Icelandic life, at least during the winter half of the year. But Thorir never walks away from a song without a touch of hope. I had visions of Alex Chilton, circa Like Flies on Sherbert, and the solo Jeff Tweedy going through my head as he sang, but Thorir is very much his own uniquely haunted man.’
David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com

Rated 4/5 in GAFFA (DK) 'I belive in this'

4,5/5 in Morgunbladid (IS) 'I belive in this'

Voted 5th best album of the year in Fréttabladid (IS) 'I belive in this'