Indie
Q&A: Cleaning Women
Experimental trio Cleaning Women was our selection for this month’s MAP post after the release of their latest album U. We also called planet Clinus 1, where the band resides, and spoke to CW04 to find out what these three cleaning robots have to say about the new album.
Lapko – I Shot the Sheriff
Lapko is one of the most exciting and successful alternative rock bands in Finland with their punk-based feverish sounds. A few months ago, the trio set camp in Woodstock, New York and enlisted D. James Goodwin to record their fourth album. The first single borrows the classic Bob Marley song title I Shot the Sheriff [...]
Magenta Skycode – We’re Going To Climb
Turku band Magenta Skycode start their latest single We’re Going To Climb with some nice vocal harmonies and acoustic guitars that takes us to places recently visited by Fleet Foxes as the band builds up an uplifting and spiritual song. We’re Going to Climb is part of a recently released 7-inch vinyl, which features different artwork [...]
Manna – Gimme Water
This autumn singer Manna is living her breakthrough after releasing her second album ‘Songs of Hope and Desire’, which was received with good reviews and followed by cover stories in magazines and a raising interest in the UK. Born in Paris to a Finnish mother and an Algerian father, the singer spent her childhood between [...]
Cosmobile – Quiet Town
When a band mentions Talking Heads, The Strokes and Vampire Weekend to describe its sound, I cannot help scratching my head and wondering if such a mix works. However, on Cosmobile’s new album “Making Do” such a mix works with a surprising simplicity. With this second album, the Helsinki band becomes one not to be [...]
