My Head Is an Animal
folk indie indie rock icelandic iceland
"Dirty Paws" is a song written and recorded by Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men for their debut studio album, "My Head Is an Animal". It is the opening track and the title of the album comes from a line in the song, and was released as its second single in April 2012 in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Europe. It was featured in the trailer and soundtrack to "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". A lyric video to the song was released in 2014. The video features a large two-legged creature carrying a flag through an Icelandic mountainscape Read more on Last.fm.

Of Monsters and Men are an indie folk band which formed in 2010 in Keflavík/Garðabær, Iceland. The band consists of Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir (vocals, guitar), Ragnar Þórhallsson (vocals, guitar), Brynjar Leifsson (guitar), Kristján Páll Kristjánsson (bass), Arnar Rósenkranz Hilmarsson (drums) and the former member Árni Guðjónsson (keyboards, accordion), who left the band in 2012. The band released their debut album "My Head Is an Animal" in September 2011. The album's single "Little Talks" peaked at #1 in Iceland, and became successful in the United States after extensive airplay on Philadelphia rock station WRFF and subsequent word of mouth. In April 2012 the tune became their first entry on the US singles chart, when it entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #92. They released further albums, Beneath The Skin in 2015 and Fever Dream in 2019. http://www.ofmonstersandmen.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.