Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
Ville Härkönen is a great singer and a great songwriter… and even more importantly.. a really lovely guy. He also has a new band called Sonik that recently released this acoustic studio live video for their song Kyynisyyden kyy. I’ve listened to several times during the past week and I think it’s gorgeous. Judge yourself by hitting that play button below. This is Sonik and Kyynisyyden kyy.
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It’s kind of a crime that I haven’t written more about this one. Ok, I took a month off from blogging, but there are no good excuses. I started onechord.net, because of releases like this. This is Finnish pop music of the highest order. The Wonderminers released their debut album These Fell Off The Shelf in mid-January and it’s full of warm, harmonic and beautiful pop music. Monstrously highly recommended. This is Steve and the Silents.
Still staying in Canada, but this is something very different. Nudie’s debut solo album Remember This is a great country record. I really like the songwriting. The songs might often be fairly simple country ballads, but there’s always some really good lines that lift them to another level. I suppose the record could sound even better, but country music doesn’t really need a gigantic backing. The thing that counts is the song and Nudie has that thing covered. This is the title track Remember This.
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Nudie at Facebook
Time to start focusing on 2014 favorites. One of my recent favourites has been Ooh! by The Pinecones. I think this came out originally in 2013, but Reel Cod Records will release the physical LP in February 2014. I got into Brent Randall & His Pinecones several years ago through The Heavy Blinkers, but I had lost touch during the recent times. If I remember correctly the earlier band made pretty amazing orchestral pop music. Things haven’t really changed quality-wise, but the style is a little different. Brent Randall, Paul Linklater and Marshall Bureau aka The Pinecones have made a great power pop album. Sometimes it’s sweet and harmonic, sometimes it’s closer to Shazam-like rockin’ power pop. It’s nothing that will change the world, but it makes staying on it a whole lot of fun. This is That’s The Way I Wanna Do It.
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