There appears to be a steady flow of airline traffic to the United States these days carrying aspiring rockers and their guitars. As they soar over the Atlantic, comfortably successful in their native lands, they remain cautiously optimistic that maybe, just maybe, they will break out in the States.
Every once in a while, as Oasis learned in the mid-’90s and Coldplay learned when A Rush of Blood to the Head won a best alternative music album Grammy in 2002, a European band can truly make it here.
Making that flight not too long ago was Leaves, an Icelandic outfit with sensitivity and melody to spare. The band’s debut, Breathe, was released a year ago in the U.K., and after the band re-recorded two songs and shuffled the tracklisting, Dreamworks recently released the record stateside.
In recent years, Iceland has become an intriguing musical hotspot. Fellow countrymen Bj
