If you happen to be in Helsinki this Saturday, you might want to pass by Tavastia club and check some of the most thrilling electro-pop done in Finland. Girl trio Le Corps Mince de Françoise had a triumphant year and were all over Europe, generating an instant buzz everywhere they went. The trio wraps up this year with the release of the single Something Golden and with a video shot in Los Angeles by Matt Amato. More
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
Please forgive us the delay posting this month’s MAP edition, but blogging while travelling, attending to radio shows and gigs is not that simple. From Finland we chose experimental band Cleaning Women, a trio of robots doing peculiar music. As usual, you may download all the songs at once with the link at bottom.
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