The Razor Sharp LOVE SPORT Return With New Single
Helsinki pop/rock quartet LOVE SPORT return after a three year hiatus necessitated by their work in other projects with a sharply buoyant new single ‘Life’s A Joke’. It’s the first taste from their forthcoming album And Justice For All, and a more than worthy follow up to 2017’s excellent decade-spanning rock nugget Dull Tracks. While […]
NEW & NOTABLE: OCELOT (FIN) – MÄ VOIN OTTAA SUN IKÄVÄN POIS
Last week saw Helsinki avant-garde pop outfit Ocelot release their debut EP Mä voin ottaa sun ikävän pois (loosely translated as What Can I Take Away). The trio centre around the songwriting, piano and idiosyncratic voice of multimedia artist Emilia Pennanen and the EP itself on four tracks penned a number of years ago. About […]
ASTRID SWAN AND STINA KOISTINEN UNITE IN LIFE AND ART FOR SYMPTOMS & MANAGEMENT
Acclaimed Finnish artists Astrid Swan and Stina Koistinen (Color Dolor) have joined forces for a new experimental and chamber pop project simply named Swan/Koistinen. Due to deliver their debut EP in May titled Symptoms & Management, last Friday saw them release ‘Diagnosis’, its sparse and surreal but richly intense first single. An experiential and personal […]
FINNISH TRIO OCELOT SHARE HÄMÄRÄ
Photo: Sanna Lehto Helsinki art pop trio Ocelot, led by the distinctive vocals of composer and multi-instrumentalist Emilia Pennanen, have released their pensive piano and bass driven new single ‘Hämärä’ (“Twilight”). It’s a track where the title acts both as a metaphor for uncertainty and love unrequited with Pennanen’s contorted vocals tracing the edges of the […]
RECORD REVIEW: MOHLAO (NET) – KONSTRUKT 009
Prolific Helsinki based Dutch artist and producer Samuel van Dijk released a new EP Friday under his techno trading moniker Mohlao for Dutch imprint Konstrukt. On it he seeks out the tangible and seeks to plant his feet back on terra firma having immersed himself and the listener in everything below and above ground on the cannily […]
NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO FOR NEW SILVER GIRL
Helsinki quartet New Silver Girl have followed up their sprawling debut single, ‘Phantom Ride’ with the proto-punk/motorik/psych rock inspired follow up ‘Starlight City’. It’s the second single from their forthcoming self titled debut album set for October on Soliti Records. Watch the video which sees frontman Olli Happonen star in what is in his own words […]
LAKE JONS RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM
“Anywhere you want to go, we are family,” Lake Family, Lake Jons. Helsinki three piece psych-pop outfit Lake Jons released their impressive self titled debut album last month. It’s a diverse and organic twelve track affair that comes off the back of their twin EP’s from 2016, Explore and Explode. To write and record the […]
CATS OF TRANSNISTRIA RELEASE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO FROM UPCOMING RECORD, OPIUM
This is our final new music post for 2017. We couldn’t think of a better way to end the year than sharing this… Helsinki’s Cats Of Transnistria have ended 2017 with the release of an intoxicating new single, ‘Candy Man’ which will appear on their forthcoming album Opium set for release next year. After gifting […]
VERANDAN RELEASES DEBUT EP
Last week Finnish pop quintet Verandan, formed in 2015 around Cats On Fire guitarist Ville Hopponen, released their long awaited self titled debut EP. It’s a collection of six nuanced pop gems that delivers both depth and variance across style and decade. We gushed big time a few months back over its splendid first single, ‘Gold […]
CINA POLADA RELEASES 13th JULY
Finnish pop quartet Cina Polada have released the third single from their forthcoming self titled EP due out next week on Strangers Candy. Listen to the contemplative two speed ‘July 13th’ below. It follows up previously covered singles, ‘Nowhere‘ and ‘Gloom‘. Get the EP on cassette here. July 13th Cina Polada (FIN) From the […]