Album review | The angelic pop of Maastättös shines like Abba on the new album

The pop of Kaisa and Anna Karjalainen sounds brighter, more streamlined and even swinging than before.

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Spice girls: The happiest people in the world. Is This Art!. ★★★★

Its place Maustetytö, who have established themselves in the field of domestic alternative pop, have teamed up with their third album Sasu Ripati with.

In autumn 2021 before Maustatyttök Agents delusional excursion the songwriting for the new album has started in your familiar from the Blender Matti Mikkolan with. Duo’s manager Aki Roukala keksi unites the band and Ripati, with whom he is the son of the same village from Oulu and Hailuodo.

Ripatti, better known as Finland abroad, has been recording highly regarded electronic music for over 20 years, for example Vladislav Delay– and Witchcraftwith names.

Roukala According to Ripatti, Finnish pop music is in the yard, which doesn’t sound like it hindered the collaboration: The novelty of the Spice Girls sounds admirably bright, naturally linear and stronger than before.

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Happiest nation in the world – album’s fluidity and clarity sounds refreshing compared to the whiny junky indie of the debut album, which sold 5,000 vinyl records. The role of the producer has clearly been more emphasized than before, despite that the result sounds primarily like the band itself.

The familiarity from the last album is emphasized even more. Kaisa Karjalainen the texts include war as a continuation of outsiderness, drunkenness, disappointments and concern for nature (The bargain price of pride) and refugee (Love your homeland).

A guitar player Anna Karjalainen was introduced as the lead singer on the debut single of the Agents project. Now Anna is responsible for the song with two songs (Invisible Anna, Mother went to sea). In the album size, you hardly notice the alternation of the two singers in a good sense.

The choruses burst out with their stems, at their best, ear-splittingly shimmering and powerful. For example Love your homeland even the swinging chorus brings to mind a social update of Abba’s nostalgic electronica Visitorsfrom the album reinforced with Interpol guitars.

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Lead and wood breaks new ground in Leevi and the Leavings fandom. The combination of the optimistic wistfully glowing composition and the lyrics telling about the beginning of the downhill and the momentary glittering shooting star is so first-class rousing that it is unnecessary to talk about the pastiche alone. Only the mandolin is missing!

Handsome at the beginning Not such a big city painstakingly to the top of the band’s repertoire with its Central Park-Karhupuisto juxtapositions. Rocks in socks introduces a light-shoe dancer who rants at accusations. Repeating the theme of greed and nature Back willow sounds like PMMP in the chorus.

Even if it would have been better to do the expansion and release more briskly, Happiest nation in the world is clearly a stronger album than expected.

For the first time, the band created songs well beyond what was needed for the album.

You could imagine Karelian cell phones beeping with song-making wishes, that’s how valid the track is.

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