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The Glass Mountain

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Some brand new Finnish music. The Glass Mountain is a one-man electronic indie band. The pop wizard behind The Glass Mountain is Mika Mäkilaakso and he just released the first three Glass Mountain songs. Style-wise this might not be the closest thing to my heart, but I need to write a few words, because the songs are pretty damn good. I especially like the first one The Grey. Such a great song.. and as a bonus there are a few moments in there that takes me back to the days when Ben Gibbard meant the world to me. You can listen all three songs on his bandcamp/soundcloud. This is The Grey.

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The Glass Mountain at Soundcloud
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Frontier Ruckus – Eternity of Dimming

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More incredible new releases. I’m quite a newbie when it comes to Michigan-based folk group Frontier Ruckus. It took me until last year to find them, but then I finally bought their earlier albums Orion Songbook and Deadmalls & Nightfalls and my ears convinced my heart that I have a new favourite band. I haven’t heard the whole new Frontier Ruckus album Eternity of Dimming yet, but their american label Quite Scientific have about half of the songs streaming on their bandcamp store and based on those I’m in for a real treat when the copy that the local record store ordered for me arrives. Maybe I should book a doctor appointment in advance, because I’m fairly certain that my jaw drops to the floor out of pure amazement. A double album sounds a bit scary but I think Frontier Ruckus will carry me through it without any drop in quality of the songs. Eternity of Dimming is out in the UK/Europe february 11th on Loose Music. This is Eyelashes from the new album.

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Justin Rutledge – Valleyheart

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A new Justin Rutledge album Valleyheart is coming out february 12th on Outside Music. I’m a long time fan. I fell in love with his debut No Never Alone when it came out and have followed his career ever since and bought all the albums. This Canadian singer-songwriter has been consistently great over the years. Ok, I think had some minor issues with the production/arrangement side of the previous one, Early Widows and therefore I’m quite pleased that Justin Rutledge has taken a minimal approach this time around. At the moment, the new album Valleyheart is streaming over at cbcmusic and it seems to be a really strong album. Listen to the wonderful Kapuskasing Coffee below.

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Jacco Gardner – Cabinet of Curiosities

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Oh my. I’m just listening to the new Jacco Gardner album on soundcloud for the first time and I’m pretty stunned. Jacco Gardner from the Netherlands is making wonderful baroque pop, psych pop and the Cabinet of Curiosities is out on Trouble In Mind and Excelsior Recordings on february 11th. The debut single was a video of the day a year ago, so I knew Jacco was great and going places, but still I didn’t expect his debut to be so mindblowingly awesome as Cabinet Of Curiosities seems to be. Ok, it’s still early days, I haven’t even listened the whole thing yet, but I just love everything I hear so much that I already had to start spreading the word. This one below is Summer’s Game. You can stream the whole beautiful album at soundcloud and Spotify.

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