{"id":95168,"date":"2019-09-11T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=95168"},"modified":"2019-09-11T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T18:12:15","slug":"vinyl-vvednesday-finnish-him-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/vinyl-vvednesday-finnish-him-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl VVednesday: Finnish Him! (Vol. 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi there. Let’s examine and discuss some vinyl releases, shall we? I’ll try to do my best to do this every week. Do you want in? If so, please sound off in Disqus. For this first [official] entry of Vinyl VVednesday I’m going to share with you a small sample of amazing Finnish bands whom deserve our attention: Siinai<\/strong> and Kairon; IRSE!<\/strong> (the exclamation point is part of their name). So grab yourself a coffee with a shot of piim\u00e4, pair it with a link of pork makkara, and view this on a computer running an operating system designed by Linus Tordvalds\u2014it’s about to get Finnish up in here…<\/p>\n

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Siinai<\/strong> – Sykli<\/em><\/p>\n

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Let me tell you about the serendipitous “big bang” which led to my discovery of the greatest music-producing country on God’s green Earth: promotional material from a stellar band called Siinai, to whom I gave a few words ov praise in 2017 (linked contained here<\/a>). Back then I said, “This is an album which may spur me to finally purchase a turntable and start a vinyl collection,” which turned out to become true…it was the first new vinyl purchase<\/span> I made after acquiring the equipment to play it (a decision my ears love, but my wallet hates<\/em>).<\/p>\n

This (mostly) instrumental, minimalist band gives us moments of serene quiet and bombastic loud in equal measures, with the utmost patience and restraint, often in the same song. If you possess a spiffy graphic equalizer<\/a>, you can see the moments when the bars are completely blank and minutes later reaching towards the sky. A prime example of this range of dynamism can be found on the title track of this masterpiece:<\/p>\n