This low-price import DCD collection offers an unabashed peek into the peculiar phenomenon of veteran Finnish trio 22-Pistepirkko (translates as "22-ladybug"). The band's sound and diabolical dynamic, remarkably consistent over the span of the 17-year career embraced here, is a luminous, surreal, guitar-based electro-pop and proto-garage-psychedelia blended with elements of acoustic folk and spaced-out bohemian blues-rock. Easily one of Scandinavia's most eccentric and evocative pop acts, 22-Pistepirkko are like The Clinic in a prescription-only fog, The Kinks in keyboard overload, Primal Scream woozy on moonshine and maracas, a lo-fi Pet Shop Boys whose disco ball has escaped earth orbit, and T. Rex savant Marc Bolan, who 22-P vocalist PK is often compared to. 22-Pistepirkko are slightly weird, slightly childish, slightly psychedelic, slightly awkward, slightly rockin', but mostly epic, genius, and supremely Finnish. Disc one (1986-1994) leans on wired blues-tinged organ-driven garage-rumble and sublime vocal yelps, sizzling with fuzz-guitars and maracas... Truly a marvel of anthropological and historical musical freakery, everything the band does, from simplex to complex, is rendered in a deliriously odd way. Disc two (1996-2002) finds the band exploring their synthier side, set loose upon a stack of mesmerizing pop songs, skewed melodies, luxuriant ambient textures, tweaked drum-n-bass brazenry, all performed on traditional instruments and lovingly swaddled in echoing studio expressionism.
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http://www.22-pistepirkko.netTrack List:
1. Ou Wee!
2. Hongkong King
3. Motorcycleman
4. Don't Try To Tease Me
5. Frankenstein
6. Don't Play Cello
7. Don't Say I'm So Evil
8. Birdy
9. Texacoson
10. Swamp-Blues
11. (Just A) Little Bit More
12. Wild Billy
13. Gimme Some Water
14. Coffee Girl
15. I Never Said
16. Roundabout
17. Taxi 74
18. Onion Soup
19. Sad Lake City
20. Boardroom Walk
21. Snowy Dave-99
22. Fujisan
23. Car Wash
24. This Time
25. Waiting For The Train
26. Rally Of Love
27. Let The Romeo weep (live)
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