Pop music with a touch of swing? I can get behind that. We don't need another full-on scene revival, but sure, I'll support a band that wants to jazz it up a bit. Finland's Kiki Pau does a decent job at it, though I get the sense they're holding themselves back. Shouldn't a song called "Pit bull" be a bit more... invigorating? Angry, even? Or would that just be reinforcing negative stereotypes? Not all bullies are that way, I know. Anyhow, the people doing those backing vocals sound like they'd rather be anywhere else and the [...]
I'm still way behind my MySpace-messages, so here's just a quick run-through. I'm not mentioning every artist/band, because to be honest, not all of them are worth mentioning. No longer band explanations as well... one song at the most, and you have to find out more about them by yourselves if you dig what you hear. Life's a bitch, isn't it? :) The Loomis Fargo Gang http://www.myspace.com/theloom isfargogang Rock, Virgina Beach, USA Alone (MP3) Birthday Boys [...]
Depending on how you look at it, Kiki Pau 's debut album couldn't have arrived at a worse time. Either that, or it's the best timed release ever. As most of England gets washed away by torrential downpours and belts tighten with talk of a credit crunch, it's safe to say that 'Let's Rock' s relentlessly summery indie pop isn't really in tune with the times. It is however the perfect antidote to the never ending layer of gloom that currently pervades the nation. For these 11 tracks offer a glimpse of a summer [...]
Helsinkiläisnelikko Kiki Paun debyyttilevy Let's Rock (Johanna Kustannus/Pyramid) ilmestyy 24. syyskuuta. Hyvässä nosteessa olevalta bändiltä on ilmestynyt aikaisemmin kolme loppuunmyytyä omakustanne-ep:tä sekä single Poses . Levy-yhtiön tiedotteessa yhtyeen hengenheimolaisina listataan mm. Television, The Strokes, The Replacements ja Pixies. Usein isojen nimien mainitseminen on enemmän vaivaannuttavaa kuin tarpeellista, mutta Kiki Paun debyyttiä kuunnellessa ne tuntuvat kuitenkin perustelluilta. Kappaleista löytyy esikuvien kaltaista energisyyttä ja särmää. Mukana on myös riittävä annos omaperäisyyttä. Kokonaisuutena levy on onnistunut. Soundit ovat kohdallaan ja bändi soittaa hyvin yhteen. Kappaleista eniten miellyttävät svengaava Your Bedroom sekä [...]
Finnish indiepop act Kiki Pau 's new video for "Your bedroom" is now online: http://vids.myspace.com/index. cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual &videoid=42543904
Finnish indiepop act Kiki Pau is now streaming their brand new single "Poses" at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/kikipau
The weather today has been foul. Dark, murky clouds have filled the sky, soaking anyone brave (or stupid) enough to venture outside I sit here writing this as barefoot as Joss Stone but nowhere near as irritating. Waiting and hoping for my socks and my converse to dry out, before I have to go back outside for another inevitable drenching. And yet I find myself listening to music that's at complete odds to the day. And I'm finding a bit odd. Normally, my listening habits reflect the frame of mind I'm in. [...]
"Why can't we communicate?" I'm off for the next 16 days to backpack around Italy and Greece, and I thought it only fair that I sneak a post in before I leave. Often times I open my inbox to a slew of band solicitations that, if I even bother listening at all, leave me unimpressed. However, Finland's Kiki Pau made it to my ears somehow...thankfully so, at least. I couldn't help but notice their (strange) penchant for my hometown of Minneapolis, and on [...]
Well, I'm late with a lot of things after my move to the north, so I guess a "shorties"-post could get some of the work done in one post... Here are some of the stuff I should have posted a lot earlier, but as with all great music, time does not make music better or worse. This is good music! *** Labrador records has a new signing, The Sound of Arrows . The band is from Sweden, and fits perfectly among the other bands on Labrador. [...]
Kiki Pau Genre: Indie / Rock From: Helsinki, Finland I have absolutely no idea what Kiki Pau means. For all I know it could be some obscure sexual practice peculiar to Finnish super models and professional footballers. But if you're after a blast of loose and doggedly enthusiastic indie power pop that recalls the 80s college rock of [...]
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