Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
Hearts Somewhere by Johannes Laitila came out last week on the 28th of march. Hearts Somewhere is his second album. The debut flew under my radar, but this new one has gotten quite a lot of air time in this household during the past few weeks. It won’t make me shout his name from the rooftops, but I enjoy listening to the album. You can listen to the whole album on his Soundcloud. This is the music video for the song entitled November.
Ville Härkönen is currently exploring the Ethiopian pop music scene, but thankfully that hasn’t stopped him from writing new music and forming new bands. Piilomaa = Ville Härkönen, Ensio Kinnunen, Heikki Marttila, Pekka Kupiainen and Petri Varis and they’ve put together a promo EP, which you can hear below. My own favourite is Vaativaa seuraa. It’s been stuck in my head since I first heard it on Ville’s solo concert sometime last year.
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Big news! The new Cats on Fire album All Blackshirts To Me hit the record stores today. The regular readers all know that I love this band unconditionally. The finest indie pop band in the world in my books and All Blackshirts To Me is once again a wonderful record. The album was released in Finland by Soliti. The great indie pop label Matinee recordings is responsible for the US release. The record release party takes place at Dynamo, Turku on 30th of march.
A Few Empty Waves from the new album:
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My Sense Of Pride from the new album:
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Cats On Fire Website
Soliti Website
Do you want to buy a beautiful vinyl copy of Finnish indie classic Ystävät, toverit by Wojciech? If the answers is Yes or hell Yes, join this facebook group. If 150 people commits on buying the vinyl by joining the group, the label Plastic Passion (who also released the out-of-print CD back in 2004) will make it available on vinyl as soon as possible. This is Jäätehinen from this amazing album.
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