Country, Americana, Folk, Power Pop, Indie Pop
The Genuine Fakes is a wonderful power pop band from Sweden. They’ve had a lot of great songs on their myspace during the past few years and now their debut album is finally coming out. I don’t know when exactly, but hopefully before the end of the year, because I’m really looking forward to it. The single I Don’t Want It is out and available and it sounds pretty damn good to me. Reminds me of Popsicle and that is always a good thing.
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I’m guessing that both this documentary and the upcoming album are future classics. The Wonderminers is Petri Nakari’s (Red Carpet, Sister Flo etc) new band with all the usual suspects as his sidekicks and partners in crime. Well if you can call making perfect pop music a crime. The Wonderminers album will be stunning..
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Puskii!
If you are wondering what ultrasport’s Sami Konttinen is doing nowadays, this is part of the answer. He has a new band called Puskii! and Puskii! is about to release their debut album later in the year 2010. You can already listen to the first single Kaalinpäitä ja kraanavettä on their myspace.
Puskii! at myspace
Puskii! at blogspot
Delay Trees
After their really good self-released Soft Construction EP, Delay Trees signed a deal with Johanna Kustannus and their first full-length album is due out in september. The first single is called Cassette 2012 and you can download it from their website. And it’s free. “Tender pop songs that will melt your ears” says their website and that’s pretty accurate. I have high hopes that the album could be both brilliant and still sell quite well.
Delay Trees Website
Delay Trees at myspace
Delay Trees photo Aapo Huhta
Truly wonderful news and it took me several weeks to write about it. Debut release by Nopat has been out and available for a few weeks. It’s a seven inch single Yksinäisten tiet / Rauhaton and I love it to bits. Nopat is a fairly new band, but these boys have given us some fabulous pop music with their earlier groups such as Leaky Soles, Red Carpet and Nopat continues on the same level of excellence. Think of younger finnish version of Mojave 3 (Excuses For Travellers -era) or Luna for example. Well better not to think anything that I have to say and just listen to this beautiful a-side of the single below.
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Nopat photo by Appu Jasu