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Viljami Kukkonen – Mörönsyötti

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Today I bought Mörönsyötti by Viljami Kukkonen and I instantly fell in love with it. If I still wrote proper reviews, this one would get full five hearts. Mörönsyötti holds so much beauty and comfort inside. Listening to it for the first time ended up being almost like a spiritual experience. Part of the reason for that was that I had only heard one song beforehand and I simply didn’t know that I was going to spend an afternoon with something so amazing, colourful and captivating. However, after the third song I was already convinced that I was listening to something very special and that feeling have only become stronger during the day. Extremely and monstrously highly recommended. If this won’t end up being in my top 10 for the year 2012, it will be one incredible year. This is the opener Hoivaa.

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Viljami Kukkonen at Facebook

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Esa Linna – She’s Not a Human Being EP

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Esa Linna will release his debut EP She’s Not a Human Being in Finland on the 29th of february. As previously mentioned, the title song She’s Not a Human Being features pop wizard Roger Joseph Manning Jr (Jellyfish etc) on backing vocals and keyboards. The full-length album will follow before the end of the year. Preview the EP below (for some weird reason this set seem to only show 3 songs in here even though there’s 4 songs on the soundcloud set).

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Esa Linna Website

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Album of the Month: Nopat – Kadun tuolla puolella

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Nopat – Kadun tuolla puolella (Kleppari, 2012)

I’ve been looking forward to this album for a year or two, because Nopat is a big favourite at this household and I loved those little discs they released back in 2010. Therefore it was quite clear that Nopat has to take the album of the month spot, if the album will be as good as I hoped it would. And it definitely turned out to be just as good as I had hoped. Cosy sunday afternoon is actually a perfect time to write a few words about the new Nopat album Kadun tuolla puolella, because this is a great sunday album. Even some minor stomach bug can’t stop me from enjoying the subtle beauty of the everyday that Nopat injects to my heart. Kadun tuolla puolella is a comfortable place to be and these fairly simple but thoughtfully crafted easy-flowing folk pop songs are able to turn a vulnerable moments into something manageable. Something very Finnish is gently colliding with delicate 90s american indie (perfect soundtrack for painting a house red in the early hours). Gentle, warm and captivating. Well done.

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Nopat Website

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Cats on Fire – A Few Empty Waves

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The major announcement of the day was that Soliti will release the new Cats on Fire album All Blackshirts To Me on 28th of march. A Few Empty Waves is a brilliant new outtake from the upcoming album and it is now available as a free download. I’m so thrilled about the fact that there will soon be a new Cats on Fire album. There just isn’t a better indie pop band in the country/world.

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Cats on Fire Website
Soliti Website

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