Brain Police is an Icelandic stoner rock band who rose to prominence in Iceland around the turn of the millennium. The band was named after a song by Frank Zappa, a leading exponent of experimental rock music. The band was formed in 1998 by Jón Björn Ríkarðsson, Gunnlaugur Lárusson and Hörður Stefánsson.The band recorded the self-produced debut Glacier Sun in 1999 and released the album in the fall of 2000. That same year the band recorded one song for an Icelandic film called Óskabörn Þjóðarinnar (Plan-B). That song turned out to be the last track the band recorded with their original singer. After that recording he left the band. Brain Police began playing instrumental music for a while - auditioning singers but coming up empty. The band even quit for a few months because of increasing vocal-void-frustration. Finally, the missing piece presented itself when a friend of the band came to town. The band decided to try out

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