PIETU ARVOLA - Silmät sulaa LP Shoegaze close-quarters musical world they shared

close-quarters musical world they shared around the turn of the century

Songs like “Resolution” and “Strange Game” live up to the legacy of Blondie and The Psychedelic Furs

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This was the first time that Big Thief had ever brought in a 5th instrumentalist for such a significant contribution

PIETU ARVOLA - Silmät sulaa LP Shoegaze close-quarters musical world they sharedFollowing his brilliant but unrelentingly sorrowful previous album, Arvola returns with Silmt sulaa a record he describes as my summer album. And of course, its warmth feels more like a heatstroke from a sun too close. Inside the sun kissed soundscapes drift memories of sunburnt skin, the burning of a childhood home, heat exhaustion during an At The Gates show, the smell of melting asphalt, and a bat circling above a hospital bed, struck mid air by a