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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 recorded the self-produced debut Glacier Sun in 1999 and released the album in the fall of 2000. That same year the band was asked to record 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. In the beginning he was supposed to be the second guitarist but became the singer because the guys couldn't find the right singer at that time. After the recording of the song he left and the band began playing instrumental music for a while - auditioning singers all the time but coming up empty - no-one seemed to fit. The band even quit for a few months because of increasing vocal-void-frustration. The situation didn't last very long as the boys realized they had a good thing going and started playing again - continuing their search for the last piece of the puzzle. Finally, the missing piece presented itself when a friend of the band came to town. In short the band decided to try out this guy who didn't even live in Reykjavík. 10 minutes into the rehearsal, the vocal-starved 3-piece stared at each other, grinning, knowing that their search was over. The final piece fell into place and the result was even better than they could have hoped. This was the singer the band had been waiting for.
In 2002 Brain Police released a 3 song promo-album called Master Brain on Grassbumper Records, wich was very well recieved. Brain Police are currently one of Iceland's most popular bands, they have proved that by topping the charts of the most popular rock station in Iceland, with the number one song "Jacuzzi Suzy". Shortly after that, the band signed a record deal and went back into the studio to record their next full-length album. After finishing the album, the band went into a contract-limbo due to restructuring of their record company. A fair amount of legal wrangling ensued, on top of delays and setbacks in the manufacturing of the CD itself.
The second album, entitled simply Brain Police, was finally released in October 2003. Since its release, the band has had one more no.1 hit (Rocket Fuel) and 2 other top 10 tracks in Iceland.
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