Album of the Month: Glossary – Long Live All Of Us

I don’t really have the time to write proper reviews at the moment, but here’s a couple of quick words about new brilliant Glossary album.

It’s dark when you leave for work and it’s again dark when you get back home from work. That’s the lovely Finnish November. You can barely see the light of the day and therefore it’s rather nice to listen to something that makes you feel the summer in your heart. Glossary’s new album Long Live All Of Us is the kind of a record that makes everything all alright and it just feels damn good to listen to it.

Long Live All Of Us is definitely a major contender when One Chord to Another (well me) starts selecting those very best albums of the year. I love everything about it. Just perfect soulful rock in my books. The band might be best known in the alt-country/americana/country rock circles, but you don’t really need to have a single country bone in your body to be able to fall in love with Glossary. Sure that background shines through, but things like E Street Band comes to mind as well. Actually if you love the great Finnish rock’n’roll group Damn Seagulls, you should definitely check out Glossary. My favourites might change on an hourly basis. Currently they might be When We Were Wicked and The Flood. These are not on soundcloud, but these two below are equally amazing. Long Live All Of Us is a marvellous record and easily worth all five hearts.

This is the opening track Trouble Won’t Last Always:

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And this is a song called A Shoulder To Cry On:

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Glossary Website

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Kevin – A Lonely Place

Kevin are returning to this ball game and a brand new Kevin album is due out in early 2012. The first outtake from the upcoming album is a free digital single entitled A Lonely Place and it is now out and available. I’m looking forward to the album, because even though I love digging the old treasures from the Shindig! magazine, it will be great to get some new Finnish music with 60’s psych/garage flavours.

This is the new single A Lonely Place:

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And this is the marvellous old music video Theme From Forever (from the We Come In Peace album that came out back in 2004)

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Kevin Website
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Kevin photo: Risto Vauras

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Hi-Lo & In Between: We Are Not The Wind

I’m not sure when was the exact release date of this beauty, because I bought this from Hiljainen Mies at previous Flavour Of The Month. Anyway, I think it is now officially out and available and needs to be praised. We Are Not The Wind is an excellent record full of finest finnish folk rock and americana. It was released by Lumpeela Julkaisut and they’ve added one new song from the record to soundcloud. This one is called The Day When Madness Came:

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And this is the stunning first single A Clear Silence:

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