rock

This month in Viola Music Club: were a-rockin'!

That's right! It's full-on 110% full steam ahead MIDI rock n' roll from the Viola camp this time.

This month's top achievement: fitting words like "ventriloquist" and "cardiologist" into a carefree indierock lyric.

Heart Breaks Into A Song (hifi)
Heart Breaks Into A Song (lofi)

Ok, here we go. Our first free track for this website project...

Cute Destroyer (hifi)
Cute Destroyer (lofi)

TOMMI: The track that initially got us a reputation of being Finland's Mew and I have to admit that they did have a quite huge momentary impact on us at a point. The impact may have even gotten a bit out of hand on some Anything Can Stop Us -tracks, but then again, why not. For a fleeting moment Mew was a pretty damn dumbstrikingly original band and trying to emulate even tiny bits of their sound was kind of interesting.

But aside from that I really do dig this track. In a sense, Tearcandy is a very traditional first album in the sense that most of the material on it is pretty damn old and had lived through several changes in arrangement and even band line-ups. It was pretty much a compilation of Riku's songwriting from about 10 years, so a lot of the stuff had really had time to develop. But then there's stuff on there like Halo Goodbye that's written pretty much at the last moment. Especially the vocal track (melody / lyrics), most of which was pretty much written and arranged as we were recording it. The cool thing is that I really don't think the difference is that huge and that this track blends into the rest of the album quite nicely.

TOMMI: This is probably how a whole lot of people still picture us - a half-decent yet a bit boring Placebo-esque over-serious semi-gothic rock. I still love this song in hindsight, though. The bass-line is classic Esa Mikkonen material and the overall composition is pretty good. Too bad Tearcandy mostly sounds like crap and this is probably the track that is hurt worst by this fact. The end is a pretty definitive Viola-moment in all it's pompousness. One of our early ventures into the "just put every element of the song on top of each other in the end" -school of arranging stuff.