Video of the Day #123: Strawberry Heritage

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Today I found something new to love and it’s called Strawberry Heritage. I was just totally into this about 15 seconds after I started watching and listening to this video of a new Strawberry Heritage song Grow Back New. It’s an outtake from their upcoming album New Rise, due out in june 2013. If the rest of the album matches the level of Grow Back New and the other already available song Work Harder, New Rise is going to be brilliant. Maybe it could even come to the level of the new Frontier Ruckus record Eternity of Dimming, which so far is my favourite record of the year. I brought that up, because there is a connection (and this was another opportunity to tell people about the greatness of the new Frontier Ruckus album). If I’m not mistaken John Hanson has directed videos for them and played bass on their tour line-up. It’s always great to find a new artist that I find amazing and then notice that he is friends with other artists I love like Frontier Ruckus, Small Houses, Nathan K etc. Anyway, the connections are nice, but what’s more important is that John Hanson is a really talented folk songwriter. And those harmonies on some of the songs. Oh my. Pure bliss for a pop fan like yours truly. This is Grow Back New.

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Strawberry Heritage at bandcamp
Strawberry Heritage at facebook

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Video of the Day #122: Ochre Room – Don’t Try

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One Chord to Another gained some unexpected recognition today. It was selected as the #1 Finnish music blog by Cision. Which was nice, even though it might not be fully deserved. Lately the update frequency has not been on the level it should be and there are plenty of Finnish bloggers that do a great job in covering Finnish music and are better writers than I am. Anyway, there seems to be a small burst of new visitors, so this is a rather good opportunity to recommend one of my favourite Finnish bands, Ochre Room. This Tampere-based folk rock / americana group released a marvellous debut album Evening Coming In last year. The follow-up is currently in the making, but it’s still way too early to set a camp outside your favourite record store. However, the band just released a new music video for the song Don’t Try. It’s an excellent outtake from their debut album and the music video was directed by Jeroen Sebrechts.

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Ochre Room Website

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Video of the Day #121: Clint Michigan

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This is something rather special. I had never heard of Clint Michigan until Slowcoustic premiered their latest music video two weeks ago. I had an instant crush with the song and the band. Somehow I’ve missed the earlier posts about the band even though I try to read their all blog posts (sometimes I almost feel like I’m stealing content from Slowcoustic because the blog is such an inspiration. So you can just unfollow me and start following only slowcoustic. Unless you are into power pop and Finnish music that I occasionally feature as well).

Clint Michigan is a New York-based folk group led by singer-songwriter Clint Asay. Their latest album Coeur d’Alene came out in october 2012 and in february 2013, Michal Tlusty made this stunning animated video for the title track. I fell in love with the song and the video fits perfectly to the song. I also have to post their earlier video Aaman Crane below Coeur d’Alene, because a) the song is equally amazing b) there’s cats in the video. And if there’s something that I love even more than beautiful folk songs, it is cats. It’s a shame that there doesn’t seem to be any physical releases, because I’m still not good at buying digital releases. I may have to make an exception, because Coeur d’Alene is indeed something very special. You can listen to / buy the whole amazing album on their bandcamp. This is the title track Coeur d’Alene.

Clint Michigan’s “Coeur d’Alene” from CLINT MICHIGAN on Vimeo.

CLINT MICHIGAN’S “AAMAN CRANE” from CLINT MICHIGAN on Vimeo.

Clint Michigan Website

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Video of the Day #120: Frontier Ruckus

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Tonight there’s no time for large updates, but there’s always time for Frontier Ruckus. This is Careening Catalog Immemorial from their stunning new double album Eternity Of Dimming. I’m totally into that album and can listen to it all day long. Maybe I should rethink my strategy of not writing actual reviews anymore. On the other hand, now I don’t have to decide is the new Frontier Ruckus worth full five hearts or just four and a half.

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Frontier Ruckus Website

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