Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
Finnish blues/roots/country artist Marty the Random Guy released quite an impressive debut Hooks back in 2009. The world is still waiting for the follow-up, but these two live at Arcada videos give a little of taste of things to come. Great stuff again from Marty.
Smalltown Madness:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw4G0DyDq5M]
Green Machine:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSMxDqdmYe4]
I don’t really writer proper reviews anymore, but if I did, this one would get all five hearts. Singer-songwriter John Moreland from Oklahoma has created something rather special. In The Throes is just one hell of an album. This is songwriting of the highest order and a contender for the album of the year award. Springsteen comes to mind occasionally, but it’s not disturbing at all. This is no third grade singer-songwriter trying to copy everything he can from the masters. John Moreland is a true talent and with this album he claims a place among the finest current americana/country singer-songwriters. This whole thing is just so damn brilliant that I’m struggling to decide which song to feature here. Let’s go with Break My Heart Sweetly this time, but you really need to hear the whole amazing album. In The Throes was released by Last Chance Records on 11th of june.
I had to add Oh Julia as well:
It looks like I need to stop waiting for that Puskii! album, because that release might never see the light of the day. Thankfully Sami has a new band called Pienet ongelmat and I’m thoroughly enjoying this one as well. First release, Lyhytsoitto I, is now available on their soundcloud and you can download it for free. This is the opener, Sataman tytöt.
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/95556194″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”100″ iframe=”true” /]
I’ve been otherwise engaged lately, but things like this can’t go completely unnoticed. This is marvellous Finnish pop music and at least once this website was all about great Finnish pop music. And obviously The Lieblings contains Coma and Andy from my all-time favourite Finnish band The Sugarrush. Anyway, The Lieblings are a fuzzy pop group from Helsinki and recently they signed a record deal with GAEA Records / Exogenic Music Group. The debut album Take Us To Your Leader will hit the stores and our hearts in august 2013. The first outtake from the upcoming album, It’s All Gonna Fall was released some days ago. You can heart this great tune below.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOzbEIVc0ok]