Leaks Plenty

From forthcoming 7" out soon (hopefully next week)

Bent - Sock Holes

Myttys "Sloggilukio" Oma333 No.024 

Seeing Myttys perform at H2Ö festival in Turku last summer was a jaw dropping experience. Certainly my favourite set amongst a damn fine line up and I demanded to release something of theirs before they'd even packed away their stuff.

I'd known Heta for years via Olimpia Splendid/Toblerones and Samuli from when he came to play with Clouds. The idea of them as a duo had gold stars written all over it but the results are far beyond my already high expectations. This is one of the best tapes I'll ever put out.

Delving in to the music and attempting to describe what I hear was quite a daunting task and my notes got kinda fun in the process. 
For example Lenak and Street Person made me think of Drunken Fist Kung Fu. Heta's effortlessly cool vocals (and the occasionally perfectly placed scream) echoed by either an imaginary twin sister or the weirdo boy next door. 
Ekkä Ota comes across like an off kilter hip hop soundtrack for a Sci-Fi film. 
Kallupää, Pamsypak and some of the interlude tracks sound, to my ears, beautifully close to the Broadcast and The Focus Group experiments of the "Witch Cults of the Radio Age" album and I hear traces of early Múm stuff in Paksotal. 
Another favourite Foliojakku holds its own unique beauty, quite different from the other tracks. Its machine music with heart and grace which builds and builds until waves of submarine echo's and rapid morse code sequences wash over you. 
Oh and the title track Sloggilukio is the bees knees! 

Certain parts of some of these tunes veer into territory only Finns seem to get away with. I find this hard to explain but there is a certain kind of relaxedness I often hear amongst my favourite Finnish bands which oozes either tons of self confidence or a massive indifference to not fitting into any kind of musical category. Or both. This unpindownable quality is what makes me instinctively trust most of the music which comes my way from there, in whatever form, yet I'm also aware of how blessed I am to have got to know the Fonal/Avarus etc crew so early on. 
The experiments they all create help make that country shine to me and I'm dead proud to finally be able to play a small part in that great history

133 jelly green tapes with white body printing will be made available from Feb 27th. Cover beautifully designed by the band themselves and risograph printed by Jan Matthé at Het Bos in Antwerp. 

Pre order; http://oma333.com/product/no24-myttys-sloggilukio

"Lenak" by Myttys from "Sloggilukio" on Oma333

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01. Lucy Railton - Gaslighter [Modern Love]
02. Pâlemort - Vision d'une ère Suprême [Tour de Garde]
03. Akurazbrukk - Untiled [Perverse Homage]
04. Tereshkova - Madonna [Audio.Visuals.Atmosphere]
05. Necrobode - Metal Negro da Morte [Iron Bonehead]
06. Himukalt - Social Anxiety #1 [Malignant Records]
07. Olympisk Løft - Untitled [Janushoved]
08. Vonlaus - Vistaránauð [Mystískaos]
09. Dauðyflin - Fyrirlitning [Iron Lung Records]
10. Robert Schwarz - WVW [Gruenrekorder]

She Is Pretty Strange - Mixtape #0

from the forthcoming album:
"Isotopes & Moonbeams Chapter I: Esperanza"

Lyrics:
you were falling like a star in the gaseous sea
we were victims of a crime that we could not see
call it destiny

you were burning in the summer of a distant plane
i'd awoken to a moment that could not be named
call it fate

o'er the trees
whisper through the violence and leaves
oh the key
lies within the isotopes and moonbeams

you were crawling like a child in its infancy
we were quantum, we were bonded - singularity
it's symmetry

you were staring so aware of all the mystery
i'd prepared to spin my narrative of cosmic dreams
it's byzantine

as we breathe
particles rewire our circuitry
underneath
all we are is isotopes and moonbeams

Isotopes & Moonbeams (Single)

from the forthcoming album:
"Isotopes & Moonbeams, Chapter I: Esperanza"

Lyrics:
this is the tundra
the withered lifeless plain
apocalyptic windswept landscape of relentless pain
we were abandoned
unwanted frozen spawn
we are the progeny of nothing in a blinding dawn
we are the weapon
the desperate device
image refracted through a fractal of a shard of ice
we are omega
the axiom arcane
the revelation of the fading of the final flame

i am a sliver of the ghost you left behind
i’m as good as gone, a void you left inside
just a shadow of the life you left behind
i’m a sliver of a
ghost

damaged
faceless forgotten seed
left to scavenge in the scrapyards of deserted debris
toxic
the fumes of ash and rust
asphyxiated souls all fated to return to dust
empty
our voices echo not
we fell from grace and now we reign upon a throne of rot
useless
awaiting death’s embrace
clusters of cells in hollow shells stuck on a rock in space

i am a sliver of the ghost you left behind
i’m as good as gone, a void you left inside
just a shadow of the life you left behind
i’m a sliver of a
ghost

Ghost (Single)

'Melody's Echo Chamber' out now on Weird World (UK/EU - http://bit.ly/11rYMLW) and Fat Possum (North America - http://bit.ly/14uT2Ep)



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