For a change, here's an entry about a Finnish (indie-) pop band.
I'm not sure where I came across Tv-resistori (Finnish for, unsurprisingly, "TV resistor") – maybe while listening to a band recommended to me by a colleague on YouTube. Maybe.
Although a far cry from "my" music, Tv-resistori write nice, catchy songs. That's not to say I love everything off the three albums of theirs I've listened to, but there's a lot of good stuff in there.
The first Tv-resistori song I heard was "J.o.v.h.m.l.s.o.a.m.o. (love)". I liked it so decided to have a listen to the album that song's from – Serkut rakastaa paremmin ("Cousins Love Better", whatever that means).
Initially, I was completely turned off the whole album by its titular, opening track. However, the more I listened to the song, the more it grew on me, until I caught myself humming the chorus one day. Yet before this occurred, I'd already decided that other songs on the album, such as "Numerot on meidän puolella" ("The Numbers Are On Our Side"), "Ratsasta mun ponilla" ("Ride On My Pony") and "Kerro poika" ("Tell [Me] Boy"), were pretty listenable. "Serkut rakastaa paremmin" and "Numerot on meidän puolella" can be heard on the band's website.
Serkut rakastaa paremmin was released in 2006 and seems to have marked a departure for the band away from, what the webstore Diogenes describes as, music with "bubblegum keyboards" to something generally more acoustic instrument-based, or at least electronically generated acoustic instrument-based, if you get what I mean. The acoustic instruments were, I should say, there from the beginning, but they started to dominate on this album.
Earlier this year the band released Tv-resistori. They've very generously put four of the album's 11 tracks on their website, of which I'd recommend three in particular : "Funtsi" ("Think"), "Ilta aikaa" ("Evening Time") and "Koputan puuta" ("I Knock On Wood").
Lastly, the band's debut album, which is a bit too quirky for me but at times displays the same melodic strength as on the other two albums when not overpowered by, in my opinion, pretty irritating synthesizers. Again from the band's website, "Intiaanidisko" ("Native American Disco") is nice, as is "Centrumi" ("Centre", I presume, although I'm pretty sure "centrumi" isn't a real word), which is available on Spotify.
I'm not sure where I came across Tv-resistori (Finnish for, unsurprisingly, "TV resistor") – maybe while listening to a band recommended to me by a colleague on YouTube. Maybe.
Although a far cry from "my" music, Tv-resistori write nice, catchy songs. That's not to say I love everything off the three albums of theirs I've listened to, but there's a lot of good stuff in there.
The first Tv-resistori song I heard was "J.o.v.h.m.l.s.o.a.m.o. (love)". I liked it so decided to have a listen to the album that song's from – Serkut rakastaa paremmin ("Cousins Love Better", whatever that means).
Initially, I was completely turned off the whole album by its titular, opening track. However, the more I listened to the song, the more it grew on me, until I caught myself humming the chorus one day. Yet before this occurred, I'd already decided that other songs on the album, such as "Numerot on meidän puolella" ("The Numbers Are On Our Side"), "Ratsasta mun ponilla" ("Ride On My Pony") and "Kerro poika" ("Tell [Me] Boy"), were pretty listenable. "Serkut rakastaa paremmin" and "Numerot on meidän puolella" can be heard on the band's website.
Serkut rakastaa paremmin was released in 2006 and seems to have marked a departure for the band away from, what the webstore Diogenes describes as, music with "bubblegum keyboards" to something generally more acoustic instrument-based, or at least electronically generated acoustic instrument-based, if you get what I mean. The acoustic instruments were, I should say, there from the beginning, but they started to dominate on this album.
Earlier this year the band released Tv-resistori. They've very generously put four of the album's 11 tracks on their website, of which I'd recommend three in particular : "Funtsi" ("Think"), "Ilta aikaa" ("Evening Time") and "Koputan puuta" ("I Knock On Wood").
Lastly, the band's debut album, which is a bit too quirky for me but at times displays the same melodic strength as on the other two albums when not overpowered by, in my opinion, pretty irritating synthesizers. Again from the band's website, "Intiaanidisko" ("Native American Disco") is nice, as is "Centrumi" ("Centre", I presume, although I'm pretty sure "centrumi" isn't a real word), which is available on Spotify.
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