Laulu Laakson Kukista
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Universal acclaim- based on 26 Ratings
- Summary: This is the latest album for the Finnish rock band.
- Record Label: Fonal
- Genre(s): Rock, Experimental
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Maybe that’s the real spiritual value of the album: rather than impress their personal convictions, the band acts as a conduit for all these forces to combine and radiate like a prism.
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Laulu connotes this youth, motion, and playfulness in various states of repair and construction, and it does so by alternating well-formed, multi-faced pop songs with abstract head-scratchers, each component as warmly evocative and strangely necessary as the last.
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group functions as a collective led by two born-again Christians, but the sounds they make suggest Christians of an extraordinarily mystical sort.
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Paavoharju have put together an entrancing second release.
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It's chaotic, but extremely beautiful and endlessly fascinating.
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Other songs like the sea-shanty-goes-Jacques Brel 'Italialaisella Laivalla' and the more openly indie-pop 'Tytto Tanssii,' with its guitar lope and synth-horn break floating over a softly rumbling cloud of melancholic, echoing textures, further add to the understated but enjoyable variety of a fine album.
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Laulu Laakson Kukista is an almost perfect example of a band moving forward without forgetting what it was that made them loveable in the first place, of how to make music with a wider appeal without sacrificing the reason people were paying attention in the first place.
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AndreaGMar 17, 2009
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TroyD.Dec 15, 2008
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GabrielCFeb 24, 2009
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Sep 26, 2013
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meyouDec 10, 2008A good album, it was always going to be hard to top their absolutely mind-blowing debut. Not that this album is less good, just different.
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