News: Burning Hearts, Carmen & The Devil, 22-Pistepirkko

The wonderful pop group Burning Hearts are releasing new material. The follow-up to the excellent debut Aboa Sleeping is still in the working state, but a new Burning Hearts EP Into The Wilderness is already waiting for your heart just around the corner. And don’t worry. It’s not there waiting for you with baseball bat and bad temper. It will only be armed with hugs, kisses, tenderness and beautiful indie pop sounds. The EP will be released by Shelflife Records on june 21st. You can check out the marvellous title track below and pre-order the EP from the Shelflife website.

Burning Hearts at Facebook

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CARMEN & THE DEVIL

Carmen & The Devil recently played a couple of shows with the excellent Damien Jurado and released a second cassette. A few copies might still be left at the best record store in the country (8raita), but if you are not able to get the cassette or have a hard time trying to figure out how you can attach that thing to the usb or dvd drive of your laptop, you can nowadays listen to some of their excellent songs on their soundcloud page. Here are the Carmen & The Devil originals Love Drove My Baby Away and St. John. Visit their soundcloud to hear their country & folk cover songs.

Love Drove My Baby Away by Carmen & The Devil

St. John by Carmen & The Devil

Carmen & The Devil at Facebook

22-PISTEPIRKKO

I haven’t written much about 22-Pistepirkko to onechord.net even though it’s one of the finest bands in Finland. Why? Well because I’ve always felt that my tiny website can’t really give anything to the already well-known bands and therefore I’ve focused on the smaller groups that (at least in my dreamland) might somehow benefit from my amateurish writings. Nevertheless. It would be stupid not to write this. The new 22-Pistepirkko album Lime Green Delorean came out last week and the songs I’ve heard so far sound absolutely amazing. This could be one of their finest albums and considering their brilliant back catalogue, that’s a lot said. Time to visit the record store next week. Here’s Ufo Girl from the new album.

22-Pistepirkko – Ufo Girl by Bone Voyage

22-Pistepirkko Website

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Video of the Day #59: Penniless

New Penniless video Panic is the perfect way to end this little break. A Cab to the City by Penniless was the best Finnish album of 2010 here at the onechord.net headquarters and Panic is an outtake from that marvelous record. The music video was directed by Kari Ahotupa and it matches the greatness of the song.

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Penniless Website
Dirtstudios Website

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Video of the Day #57: Delay Trees

Delay Trees and their high quality dreamy pop music has gotten a criminally little amount of love on this little blog. It is a really good band and one of the finest newcomers to the Finnish pop scene. Their self-titled debut album will be released in the US by Friendly Fire Recordings next month and Teemu Erämaa directed this beautiful video for one of the finest tracks of that album, About Brothers.

Delay Trees “About Brothers” from friendly fire recordings on Vimeo.

Delay Trees Website

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