Country Falls

Artist: Husky Rescue
Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5060063891729
ASIN: B0002XOZZ6

Release Date: 2005-04-12

Country Falls

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Tracks:

Sweet Little Kitten
Summertime Cowboy
New Light of Tomorrow
Sunset Drive
My World
City Lights
Gasoline Girl
Rainbow Flows
Sleep Tight Tiger
Mean Street
Good Man
Man Who Flew Away

Tracks:

New Light of Tomorrow [DVD]
Summertime Cowboy [DVD]
City Lights [DVD]

Album Description

Finnish multi-instrumentalist Marko Nyberg and his band have struck gold with their debut album for Catskills. Delicate, country-influenced folk-pop with organic instrumentation and sparse, affecting samples, made extra sweet thanks to the swooning vocals of Reeta-Leena Korhola and Emma Salokoski. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

I am the shadow on your skin and I'll be gone very soon.......2007-04-16

Think of cold, smooth ice. And imagine a warm, shimmering light appearing just under it.

That's what comes to mind with Husky Rescue's exquisite debut album, "Country Falls." The Finnish group reflects their chilly Helsinki winters with equally chilly pop, but filled with sunny warmth, as if on the first day of spring. Basically imagine Sigur Ros playing folk-pop.

It opens with a gentle stretch of shimmering synth, and a mellow little folkpop tune. "Sweet little kitten on the porch sleeps in the sun/The sunbeams climb up on the wall," Reeta-Leehna Korhola sings in a slightly breathless, wispy voice. "Small girls with sun warm hands cuddle bring him milk/then run after make castles in the snow/Jokers juggle in the air rainbow colored fountains of sugar waters flow..."

They dip into psychedelic pop in the kitschy, colorful "Summertime Cowboy," with all those whipcracks and jangling bells. But then they're back to the icy, sparkling sound of the first song -- ambient balladry, glitchy experimental tunes melting into creepy ballads, and little mellow guitar tunes that are smothered in shimmering, sparkling synth.

This edition also comes with an extra DVD, which contains three music videos. "New Light of Tomorrow" is a spare, eerie video, with a young man having a vision of a spacesuited angel, while "Summertime Cowboy" is a kooky, neon playground. And "City Lights" is a shifting video of a young woman carried away by a love song on the car radio (come on, we've all done it), who has a dream of herself dancing in green fire.

Husky Rescue is the brainchild of Marko Nyberg, who apparently wanted to make expansive, warm music to counter the cold up in Helsinki. So he collected around twenty musicians to make the right sound for "Country Falls" -- and the result is so cohesive in sound, it almost sounds like a concept album.

Almost every song is based on a little guitar melody. Sometimes Husky Rescue dip into catchy electric riffs and solid drums (like in the poppy "Summertime Cowboy"), but usually they stick to gentler, folkier material with the odd droning riff here and there, and the occasional burst of murky drumming..

And they're all wrapped in delicate layers of shimmering synth, which sound like a soundtrack for the Northern Lights. Sometimes they're glitchy, gurgly or tinkly, and sometimes they're epic sweeps of sound. And they're interspersed with devilish little laughs, robot voices and ambient sweeps of exquisite sound.

Really, that would be enough to recommend this album in itself. But it's topped with vocals from two artists: Korhola's pretty, slightly breathless voice, and Nyberg's slightly stilted, distant voice. Both of them sing songs of warmth, hope, "cotton clouds," lullabies to a "tiger," and the sweet plea, "Would you treat me right if I am kind/Would you like me more if I can smile/Would you set on tears if I start to cry/Would you take me there last one more time?"

"Country Falls" is an exquisite mixture of folk-pop and electronica, and it sounds like the end of winter when the spring sun starts to shine. Absolutely astounding.

These guys are brilliant.......2006-12-16

I was shown Husky Rescue by a friend and I swore they'd be a one trick pony after hearing 'Summertime Cowboy' (their single at that time). But 'Country Falls' is a complete work and it's a memorable one too. I am usually the last one to like 60s-era psychodelic trippy alt/rock, but there's an undeniable atmosphere and warmth to 'Country Falls' that makes it instantly addictive. Whatever tracks sound disposable at the beginning of your experience will certainly grow on you if you give them the chance to.

It's definately a journey album, so if you like radio cuts and quick hits, you might not like this one as much. But if you have the time and patience to listen to entire albums, I highly recommend it. Otherwise you might just find one or two standout tracks, and I guess it can work like that too. But do yourself a favor- find a pair of headphones and listen while you're at work, or sprawl out on your couch at home and put it in.

I've had the pleasure of seeing these guys live, and they're even more polished. I'm loving their new material and am eagerly awaiting the followup in early 2007.

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