Fluffy Maybes 松软许诺 is what happens when a once in a century pandemic strikes and locks people in their homes. We all dealt with it in our own way. Some people started knitting, others binge watched every TV show on Netflix while others got really good at looking engaged on Zoom-calls. Jingyun and Robin started […]
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Finnish songwriter Rami Vierula released his debut album Ikuinen yö last week. Several excellent releases have preceded this full-length album, but this body of work seems to tie them all together perfectly. What’s always struck me with Vierula’s music is how skilled he is at fusing different styles of music, managing to weave them into his […]
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From the moment you set foot in Skellefteå you can feel it. There’s something about the towering, humbling forests of northern Sweden and the vast barren earth, that makes you feel both intimidated and protected at the same time. The last time I visited there, I landed in the middle of a snow storm. I walked […]
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Ever since the release of her break-out single “Come Back” in 2016, Sweden’s Linn Koch-Emmery has been building a name for herself with one convincing, fuzz guitar-driven track after another. Her latest single “Wires”, produced by Niklas Berglöf in Stockholm, follows last year’s debut EP, Boys. With its swirling melody and Kock-Emmery’s drowsy delivery, “Wires” […]
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Garage-punks Parquet Courts have announced the follow-up to their 2016 hit Human Performance. The new album, Wide Awake, was produced by Danger Mouse and will be out May 18th on Rough Trade. In anticipation of the new album, the band has shared a new song called “Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience”. You can watch […]
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For Faustina Masigat – widely talented and steeped in traditional music – it wasn’t her years of music studies that would come to shape her into the artist she is today. Instead, it was a process of unlearning the rules through which she was able to discover her own musical path. Having found her own voice […]
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Verandan, the new musical project of songwriter Ville Hopponen, celebrated the release of their self-titled debut EP on Saturday with an excellent show at bar loose in Helsinki.
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor will release their new album Luciferian Towers on September 22 and have already shared two new singles, ‘Anthem for No State, Pt. III’ and ‘Undoing a Luciferian Tower’. In a time like this, when the apocalypse seems nearer than ever it’s quite appropriate for Godspeed You! Black Emperor to make a triumphant return. […]
Read MoreIf you trace the long path down pop music history it’s not as if you’ll come up empty-handed searching for songs named ‘Baby’. But amongst all the lovesick, heartbroken and starry-eyed numbers there’s a good chance that you’ve never encountered one as explosive and euphoric as Guggi Data’s addition to the list. ‘Baby’ is the […]
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Hey, how’s it going? Hope you’ve had a great summer. Sorry for not blogging! I really should have, considering there’s been so much good music released lately. One of my favourites of the past few months is a double EP by Rami Vierula. Released in May on Sitrustapes, it ties together his two previous Finnish […]
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