From: Finland
Playing: 2 female-fronted heavy hardcore
Just one song: Mun Jutut
Ok, let's start.
Let's start from the North. The far far North.
White nights, no heat.
One of the happiest country of the world, according to some not-really-checkable UN figures. One of the supposedly good pupils of Europe, the quiet ones, the non-greek ones no one knows anything about.
Let's start from Finland.
Nice landscapes, birthplace of the so cute Moomins, and of the not-so-cute black metal waves that made some ears bleed and some churches burn.
Heavy prejudices this album will help me (and you) to get rid of.
Let's start by the cover, because that's where the story started.
This white and innocent mouse on its way to the extensible stomach of a devilish IMF-like snake may be telling us that there are other not-really-checkable figures drawing a less moominly picture of the country: suicide, drug (legal/illegal) abuse, far-right growing snot, etc. And that is what this 5 pieces' band is about, in a hardcore way.
Classical old-school hardcore, no progressive shit, no free-jazz influenced evolution and home-baked guitar chords, the M.O.R.A. music is based on big guitars, kind of groovy rhythms that will make you shake your head and swing you elbows. 6 songs, 10 minutes, you won't get lost during the journey. But you won't be disappointed neither.
First, the voices. If the music doesn't bring real novelty to the genre, the vocal parts are really worth the listening. The 2 singers offer interesting variations around the concept of female vocals in hardcore bands. The two voices are quite different, and complementary, which means you will get in 10 minutes almost everything you can dream of: they bark, they owl, they growl, they sound raw, they sound angry, and sometimes, they even spit the lyrics like a good old machine gun (as in Mun Jutut around 00.48).
Second, the lyrics. All the songs are in finnish (I suppose), so I didn't know what they are about. But the fact is that hearing finnish is a really cool experience.I believe that every language has its own and inherent oral poetry that lies in its pronunciation, and it is even truer with languages we are not used to hear, like finnish, or bulgarian, or swahili. It is a paradoxical feeling: on one hand, it surely gives an exotic, almost extraterrestrial touch to the music; but on the other hand, it brings Finland closer to us. It is also the proof that the usual blah-blah about english being per se the language of rock is untrue.
So, to conclude, a powerful band, with power songs you are strongly advised to give a go.
On their bandcamp, for example.
Some pictures, if you walk by them in your local supermarket, it would be a pity not to say hi!
Because objectivity doesn't hurt, some other reviews:
-hardboiled
- take your shoot
- ineffect (for a review) + UPDATE: ineffect (for the interview)
- lammaszine
Classical old-school hardcore, no progressive shit, no free-jazz influenced evolution and home-baked guitar chords, the M.O.R.A. music is based on big guitars, kind of groovy rhythms that will make you shake your head and swing you elbows. 6 songs, 10 minutes, you won't get lost during the journey. But you won't be disappointed neither.
First, the voices. If the music doesn't bring real novelty to the genre, the vocal parts are really worth the listening. The 2 singers offer interesting variations around the concept of female vocals in hardcore bands. The two voices are quite different, and complementary, which means you will get in 10 minutes almost everything you can dream of: they bark, they owl, they growl, they sound raw, they sound angry, and sometimes, they even spit the lyrics like a good old machine gun (as in Mun Jutut around 00.48).
Second, the lyrics. All the songs are in finnish (I suppose), so I didn't know what they are about. But the fact is that hearing finnish is a really cool experience.I believe that every language has its own and inherent oral poetry that lies in its pronunciation, and it is even truer with languages we are not used to hear, like finnish, or bulgarian, or swahili. It is a paradoxical feeling: on one hand, it surely gives an exotic, almost extraterrestrial touch to the music; but on the other hand, it brings Finland closer to us. It is also the proof that the usual blah-blah about english being per se the language of rock is untrue.
So, to conclude, a powerful band, with power songs you are strongly advised to give a go.
On their bandcamp, for example.
Some pictures, if you walk by them in your local supermarket, it would be a pity not to say hi!
Because objectivity doesn't hurt, some other reviews:
-hardboiled
- take your shoot
- ineffect (for a review) + UPDATE: ineffect (for the interview)
- lammaszine
