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.
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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 and it is available to download this week for free and to listen at the end of this post. The album release will also be release shortly.
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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 for each of the 529 pressed copies. The video, dreamy and eerie, is really outstanding, so continue reading and do not miss it. More
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 France, Finland and Algeria, and now based in Helsinki, she represents an appealing cross-cultural oddity, much needed in the unmixed Finnish landscape. On this new album, Manna puts aside the dreamy pop of her debut, done in collaboration with some of The Soundtrack Of Our Lives guys, and she embraces an uplifting guitar pop with influences of Blondie and The Strokes.
Including the brilliant single Some Girls / Some Boys (once you hear it, you will have to hear it again and again), ‘Songs of Hope and Desire’ is a really strong album with no filler and we had some difficulties choosing a song to post, but in the end we picked up Gimme Water that effectively represents the catchy melodies and the dirty guitar work that are all over the album.
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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 missed in the near future. Expect them to receive a bunch of good reviews. Quiet Town is the first single and video off the new album.