British-Finnish duo Pelotons

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Finnish Tina Kärkinen and British Michael Gale have started a new duo called Pelotons and released their first song last week. This might end up being a great collaboration and this first result Burrows already sound rather marvellous. Tina Kärkinen is also the singer-songwriter of the great Finnish band Swaying Wires and Michael has his great Co-pilgrim band in the UK. I look forward to more songs from Pelotons. This is Burrows.

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Pelotons at Facebook

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I first got into Co-pilgrim several years ago when Michael collaborated with the great Ilona V. It’s a huge shame that Ilona V’s music seem to be so hard to find these days. I do have everything she did back then, but I’d like to share that beauty with the world every now and then and most of the time. I’m still quite sure that one day some Light in the Attic of the 2040’s will dig up all Ilona’s recordings and release them as a lost masterpiece. Meanwhile someone should convince Ilona to write more music..

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Video of the Day #136: Euros Childs

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A long time favourite Euros Childs is back with a new album Situation Comedy. The Euros Childs albums have never made as huge impact on me as some of the Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci albums. But that’s because Gorky’s were so special, completely amazing and oh so dear to me. It’s hard to reach that same level all the time, but the same magic takes place on Euros Childs albums as well. Maybe not as consistently, but there’s always several great pop songs on each Euros Childs release and they are all so worth hearing. This is one of them. The opening track and lead single Tête à Tête from the new Euros Childs album. Available directly from Euros Childs website.

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Euros Childs Website

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Video of the Day #135: The Lieblings (instagram music video)

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Is this turning into a Coma Silvennoinen fansite? Well actually, in some minor way this probably always has been a Coma fansite. But yeah, it’s the same guy singing as in the previous blog entry. The Lieblings has a new video for the song She Motorway. Maybe my favourite song from their great debut album. The video was shot by the members of the audience on their Helsinki concert last week using instagram video. Directed by Kalle Kotila.

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The Lieblings Website

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Hills release debut single!

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Hills (of Vaasa) actually exists. I heard the name years ago, but I wasn’t sure if Ove Ritola and Coma Silvennoinen were actually planning on releasing something under that name. They didn’t back then, but today Hills (of Vaasa) released their debut single Hello / It Was There. Sounding mighty good as expected. Especially loving the b-side It Was There. You can stream the single on their brand new website. I won’t embed the songs here, because you don’t want to miss those beautiful brides.

Hills Website
Hills at Facebook

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