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Kevin – Ebb and Flow

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Neglecting the blog has led to such sad state of affairs that I’ve failed to even mention several extremely important new Finnish releases. Back in september Kevin returned with a new album entitled Ebb and Flow. The album came out 12th of september on If Society. It might not be easy-listening, because the songs are mostly long and there’s plenty of psychedelia and progressive elements. So it’s fair to say that it doesn’t stay on my own comfort zone all the time, but there’s plenty of elements that I do love as well. Pop melodies, harmonies, 60s & 70s rock, beautiful soundscapes etc. Ebb and Flow is a bit of a challenge as a whole, but mostly a rewarding one. This is the opener Standing on a Rubber Band.

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Neil Halstead – Palindrome Hunches

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Neil Halstead has a new album Palindrome Hunches out on Brushfire Records. That’s far more exciting than any kind of Slowdive reunion. Slowdive was a really good band, but Neil has become even better since those days. Mojave 3 was like the best band ever and also solo-Neil ranks above Slowdive in my world. New solo album Palindrome Hunches is again filled with hauntingly beautiful folk songs. This is the opener Digging Shelters. I could just listen to that warm voice all day long.

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Neil Halstead Website

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The Wine-Dark Sea – Stories Better Never Told

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The Wine-Dark Sea is a band from Perth, Australia and Stories Better Never Told is their new EP. I’ve been listening to it quite a lot during this fall, because it’s really good. I especially enjoy Tracey Read’s soft and beautiful vocals. The vocals kind of add an indie pop dimension to their folk songs. Even The Softies come to mind. Or the stuff that Rachel sang on Mojave 3’s masterpiece Excuses for Travellers. Anyway, it’s all very good and an actual song tells much more than this pointless namedropping. This is Suitcase from their beautiful new EP Stories Better Never Told.

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The Lieblings – Romance Kills

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Finally the first The Lieblings song is out in the public. I’ve been really looking forward to this since I heard that Sam Shingler (Montevideo, The Pansies), Andy J. Prinkkilä (The Sugarrush), Timo Silvennoinen, (The Sugarrush) and Katja Tolonen (The Wrecking Queens) formed a new fuzz pop band together. A younger version of me would have already travelled to Helsinki to see their concert, but the lazy current version of me have only been impatiently waiting on the home sofa. Anyway, they recorded an album last summer and just posted a “live in studio” video from the album sessions. I have no idea when exactly the album is supposed to hit our hearts, but based on this video I can tell it won’t miss the target when it does come out. Hopefully it takes a little less time than The Sugarrush’s third has taken. This is Romance Kills by The Lieblings.

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