How to Make Friends

VINYL FORMAT. LP version with CD. How to Make Friends is Icelandic pop-electro group FM Belfast's first full length album. Primary group members Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson, Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir, and Árni Vilhjálmsson founded World Champion Records in 2008 to release the debut record, which includes the track "Lotus," a cover version of Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name," that was released as a promotional single. The group was founded in 2005 by Hlöðversson and Hjálmtýsdóttir and expanded in 2006 to include Vilhjálmsson and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason (the latter of the experimental electronic group múm) for a live performance at that year's Iceland Airwaves festival. The size of the group varies from performance to performance, with anywhere from three to eight members comprising FM Belfast at any given time. Other members associated with FM Belfast include Sveinbjorn Hermann Pálsson, Haraldur Agnar Civelek, Björn Kristjánsson, Birgitta Birgisdóttir, and Eiríkur Orri Olafsson(www.allmusic.com).