Animamina

Infobox Album
Name = Animamina
Type = ep
Artist = Amiina


Released = December 2004
Recorded = 2004
Genre = Post-rock
Length = 18:31
Label = Smekkleysa
Producer =
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7udyyl46xp9b link]
*Pitchfork Media (7.0/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15237/Amina_AminanimA_EP 2005]
Last album =
This album = "Animamina"
(2004)
Next album = "Kurr"
(2007)

"Animamina" is the debut EP of Icelandic string quartet Amiina.The EP was first published in early December 2004 by Smekkleysa in Iceland, and then in mid-2005 by The Workers Institute in the United States and Speak N Spell in Australia. Its title was a palindrome of the band's name, which at the time of the EP's publication was Amína. (It has now been changed to Amiina to avoid disputes with another group of the same name.) The EP is composed of four tracks and is predominantly strings, electronic samples, and experimental instrumentation, such as the use of drinking glasses to generate sound or the playing of a saw with a bow. The album's sound is reminiscent of fellow Icelandic artists Sigur Rós and Múm though their style remains largely disparate from either, and have collaborated with the former.

Track listing

# "Skakka" – 4:13
# "Hemipode" – 4:29
# "Fjarskanistan" – 6:29
# "Bláskjár" – 3:20