Scandinavian Music Group’s new album my love ends too early

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Scandinavian Music Group: Love, Sony Music.

★★★

Vocalist Terhi Kokkonenguitarist Joel Melasniemi and drummer Antti Lehtinen is facing a lively year. First, the Scandinavian Music Group, starred by the trio, releases its tenth album and makes a long tour of Finland, and in the summer it is Ultra Bra’s turn to return to the stage.

Contracting My beloved It turns out to be a good record that is a bit of a slight flatness.

The Scandinavian Music Group was founded in the early 2000s, while its members were still playing in Ultra Bra. The name of the band has been a guarantee of quality: it has not released any bad records in his career, but at its weakest, the band’s production has been a strong job of professionals.

On It is noteworthy that the farther the band’s career has progressed, the less often individual hit songs have been removed from its discs. This is probably due to the orchestra’s desire to make music on their own terms.

Scandinavian Music Group has not hesitated to try new styles in his career. The line -up, which started as a rock -driven band, has reached alternately in the direction of both country, folk and machine pop. My beloved Represents a more fragile and subtle side of the band’s catalog.

The songs controlled by the acoustic guitar, the piano and Terhi Kokkonen’s song are hustle and bustle of the speakers, and the album even invites the listener to silence. Kokkonen’s personal, nasal vocal voice still acts as a water divider: it is either or not.

The songs on the album are from start to finish. The songs written by Kokkonen and composed and arranged by Melasniemi are flowing from the speakers as a beautiful sound landscape that gives the listener the more precisely concentrate on it. However, there are no clear highlights from the album that you would like to return to the album.

My beloved There is a love disc as its name suggests. In Kokkonen’s texts, love is often bitter – something lost, inaccessible or transient. “After all, our common time has been a loneliness or a silver flap in the stream of time,” Kokkonen sings Farewellin the song.

Beauty is disappearing, with an eight -piece disc is only half an hour long.

The end of the last paragraph comes every time too early, which, on the one hand, tells about the quality of the music and, on the other hand, leaves a little incomplete.