Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
Michigan-based folk troubadour Jeremy Quentin aka Small Houses took onechord.net’s song of the year 2011 award with amazingly beautiful song Late July. So i’m definitely a big fan and some good news arrived last week. Small Houses have a new seven inch single Oh Hiding Out / Our Sweet coming out on november 5th and you can already pre-order this lovely release. This one below is Our Sweet. Stream/buy the whole thing on his website or bandcamp.
The man behind Lenzie Moss is Finlay Macdonald. If you are a scottish pop fan like yours truly, I think you are quite familiar with Finlay already. Speedboat disc back in the day was mighty fine and of course he has been a member of Teenage Fanclub and BMX Bandits in the past. So Finlay probably doesn’t need an introduction in the indie pop world, but maybe Lenzie Moss needs one. Introducing Lenzie Moss just came out digitally (maybe vinyl later, but so far only digital) and it’s a really good album. The opener Kelvin British Summertime is a song about late 80s Glasgow, but the lyrics “It was cool time to like Big Star, Dinosaur Jr and loud guitars” fits quite well to late 90s in Jyväskylä as well. That line makes me a little nostalgic for sure even though my friend(s) kindly pointed out that nothing has changed since then and it’s still cool to like Big Star and Dinosaur jr.
This is Kelvin British Summertime. Stream/buy the whole beautiful pop album at lenziemoss.com.
Flavour of the Month seem to be rather international these days. We have another international guest next Friday when wonderful Scottish folk singer-songwriter Dan Willson aka Withered Hand will share the stage with a great local group Swaying Wires. Withered Hand’s new 10″ EP Inbetweens will also get a Finnish release through Lumpeela Julkaisut in october and Withered Hand celebrates their upcoming massive stardom in Finland by playing three shows in Finland. The full Withered Hand Finland tour schedule is:
Thu 04.10. Telakka, Tampere
Fri 05.10. FOTM, Pikku-Torre, Turku (with Swaying Wires)
Sat 06.10. Korjaamo, Helsinki
This is the beautiful title track of the new EP Inbetweens:
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I’m also excited to finally see Swaying Wires live. I still really like their demo songs that you can find from soundcloud. This one is entitled Brings Me Home.
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And you’ll need a couple of Finnish lessons to read the rest.
SKOTTIVIERAS FLAVOUR OF THE MONTHIIN
Lokakuun Flavour Of The Month-illan artistivieraina kuullaan skotlantilaista, taiteilijanimellä Withered Hand esiintyvää Dan Willsonia sekä turkulaista Swaying Wires-yhtyettä. Aktit nousevat lavalle FOTMin kotiluolassa Pikku-Torressa perjantaina 5.10.
Edinburghilainen folktrubaduuri Withered Hand on kirvoittanut mairittelevia vertailuita kulttihullu Daniel Johnstoniin, ikiraakku Neil Youngiin sekä jopa Sufjan Stevensin ja Belle and Sebastianin kaltaisiin nimiin. Mediakirjoittelut sikseen: nettisivunsa ääninäytteiden perusteella kyseessä on persoonallinen, mukavalla tavalla kierokin laulaja-lauluntekijä, jonka musiikissa kuuluu hienosti skotlantilaisuus, vastakulttuuriasenne sekä silkka melodinen melankolia.
Swaying Wires tulee puolestaan Suomen Turusta ja valloittaa karhean juurevalla, tunnelmoivalla indie-americanalla The Walkaboutsin ja jopa Mazzy Starin hengessä.
FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH esittää
Withered Hand (SCO)
Swaying Wires
+ FOTM DJ team
pe 5.10. 2012 klo 21-03
Pikku-Torre, Yliopistonkatu 30, Turku
liput 4€
linkit:
http://www.witheredhand.com/
http://www.soundcloud.com/swayingwires
Whenever there’s a new Finnish power pop band/release, you can count me interested. I’ve heard good things about Helsinki-based First Times for a year or two and now there’s finally a debut release. Their self-titled seven inch EP came out in late july on Combat Rock Industry and I finally picked up my copy from the local 8raita record store. If your idea of power pop is something sugary and sweet (like Matthew Sweet for example), this might not be your slice of cheese cake. If you prefer to inhale your power pop with a fair share of rock’n’roll and punk rock (like Bomp! Records catalog for example), then you are in for a treat. This is damn good stuff for sure. You can listen to 2 out of the 4 songs below.