Featured, Finnish music, Headline, News

The Spoonshiners E.P. released

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Helsinki-based garage/power pop group The Spoonshiners just released their debut E.P as a limited edition cassette. If you aren’t willing or able to buy it, you can listen to the songs on their soundcloud. I especially enjoyed this opening track Three Years that I added below. Reminds me of all kinds of great 90’s american indie bands from Buffalo Tom to Dinosaur Jr.. The second track Echo on the Telephone on the other hand has some great classic power pop elements and wouldn’t feel out of place on those Shake Some Action compilations that I’ve been collecting recently (they gather together late 70’s and early 80’s powerpop, new wave and mod songs. Maybe not totally official compilations.. and if anybody wants to sell volumes 7 and 8 for a reasonable price, send me a note). Anyway, enough with the pointless ramblings. This is Three Years.. check out the other three songs and earlier single on their soundcloud.

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The Spoonshiners at Facebook
The Spoonshiners at Soundcloud

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Headline, International music, News

Small Houses – North

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Way too much time with beetroots and way too little time with the blog. That’s how things are going on at the moment and there’s so many great releases that I haven’t mentioned yet. Let’s start with this charming folk album entitled North. Small Houses is a Jeremy Quentin from Michigan an this thing of beauty was released on 6th of october. Slowcoustic introduced Small Houses to me a week or two ago and I got pretty obsessed with the song Late July during that night and still rate it as one of the best folk songs of the year. The whole album is captivating and extremely highly recommended. Especially if you are into artists like Chris Bathgate and Hezekiah Jones, you have found a new favourite. This is Late July from Bridgehouse Sessions.

Small Houses Bridgehouse Session Pt. 3 from Mostly Midwest on Vimeo.

Small Houses Website

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International music, Video of the Day

Video of the Day #75: Caleb Coy

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The day job, ice hockey and Flavour of the Month meant that I didn’t have any time for the blog this week, but let’s break the silence with this beautiful video of One Day Closer To You. Yer Bird Records released Caleb Coy’s captivating lo-fi country/folk album Wild Desert Rose last year. This was my favourite song on it and it still sounds as wonderful as it did back then.

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Caleb Coy Website

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International music, Power Pop

Power Pop #14: Matthew Sweet – Sick of Myself

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There’s a new Matthew Sweet album Modern Art coming out on 27th of september and that’s a good reason to pick one of the greatest songs ever. Matthew Sweet is already a legend and he has written dozens of perfect pop songs. Especially in the early and mid-nineties he was in incredible form and released three pop classics Girlfriend, Altered Beast and 100% Fun. The newer material has also been mostly damn good, so I’m looking forward to the new album. I could keep this section alive with Matthew Sweet’s songs for a month, but if I have to choose just one, it’s got to be Sick of Myself from the album 100% Fun (released in 1995). If you want to hear more pop classics, Matthew has a great sampler at Soundcloud.

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Oh and this great song below is the first single She Walks The Night from the new album Modern Art.

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Oh #2: You can download a free Matthew Sweet live Ep from Noisetrade.

Matthew Sweet Website

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