I receive a huge amount of submissions here at 17 Seconds – which is a privilege, but it does mean that there is an awful lot of stuff that I cannot get through. The best thing to do is usually to try and say something which will get my attention. A few years back, The Wildhouse put Josef K as the subject in his introductory email to me, knowing full well this would get my attention.
It did! And a month or so ago, I received an email from one Kalle Kaasinen of Joenssu, Finland, in which he mentioned his love of Suede, early Smashing Pumpkins and Jeff Buckley. It took me back fifteen years – and I gave all four tracks on the soundcloud a listen. He does indeed mix those acts together to produce something that mixes the sweetness of indie po with the let’s get dirty in our own way of both Suede and the Pumpkins (yes, those bands both sounded different. Listen to this and hopefully you will get the point).
I don’t know much more about him than that, but enjoy this music for what it is.