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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)

Dear friends,

As promised, we're continuing along the fall-time in melancholic tunes. Not as deeply wrapped in seas of sound as last month, but in distinctly autumnal tones.

Beautiful Lost Things (hifi)
Beautiful Lost Things (lofi)

Greetings, good people, followers of Viola Music Club!

Sadly, we had to kiss the shimmery summer of 2009 goodbye yesterday as we're now stepping into September and as always, it brings autumn along with it.

So obviously this means it's time to quiet down here at the club as well. It's been a particularly sweaty summer this year as far as our music goes, so it's definitely about time to cool down a bit with some far more mellow sounds.

Sea Curtain (hifi)
Sea Curtain (lofi)

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

Cute Destroyer (hifi)
Cute Destroyer (lofi)

TOMMI: Yet another proof of just how essential Esa "Espe" Mikkonen was to the early Viola-sound. The bass-riff here doesn't just support the song - it IS the song.

Some pretty cool mountaintop guitars going on in this track as well. Thanks to Neil Hannon from Divine Comedy for the inspiration for the multiple vocal tracks in the end. We actually started calling this multi-layered vocal-arrangement technique as "Hannons" at some point. "Should we put some Hannons on this?", "Of course we should!", "Right!"

You can never have too much Hannons.