New Lydia Loveless album Real is coming out on Bloodshot Records on 19th of August. If you can’t wait few days for it, the album premiere is up at npr.org. Here’s the music video for the excellent first single Longer.
Zachary Lucky – Everywhere A Man Can Be (pre-order)
Canadian singer-songwriter Zachary Lucky is getting ready to release his next full-length album Everywhere A Man Can Be. This album that was produced by Aaron Goldstein will come out October 7th on Wroxton Recordings. There’s currently a pledge campaign going on to support the release. So click this link, in case you want to pre-order a copy of this (most likely) great album. There’s also a small Finnish connection. Zachary toured here a couple of years ago and one of the song carries a title Helsinki and it was written after that Finland tour.
This is Make It On Time from the forthcoming Zachary Lucky album.
Mikko Joensuu – There Used To Be A Darkness (from Amen 2)
Amen 1 by Mikko Joensuu is my favourite Finnish album of the year so far. Second part of the trilogy Amen 2 is coming out in November on Svart Records. The first single There Used To Be A Darkness surfaced six days ago. I was a little bit wary during the early stages of the song, because the sound of Amen 1 is probably closer to the core of my music taste. Somehow Mikko still won my heart over during the 11 minutes this song lasts and when the song reached the end, all that wariness had vanished and it was time to hit the play button again. I gave it my best effort, but it turned out that it was just too hard to be a prejudiced grumpy prick when listening to this man. Sorry about that. See if you can do a better job by listening to this beautiful monster below. If you can somehow handle that, try Thief and a Liar from Amen 1 and your heart will definitely melt. I can’t wait to hear Amen 2 in November and Amen 3 sometime in 2017.