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-RELEASE DATE 5.12.2025
Motelli Skronkle’s new album Kesäyö (“Summer Night”) comes out during the darkest spell of the year up here North.
Finland’s finest conceptual performance art combo delivers radical political stance with sweet angular tunes. Music is stripped to bare minimum essentials, even more than ever before. Guitars, violas, brass weave textures for the suppressed rage about the world gone wrong.
Although only the instrumental title track “Kesäyö” is technically the only ancient credited tune of Finnish cultural heritage, the whole album has a hard “trad.” attack written on its face.
Lyrically the album is provocative, warped – beyond brilliant. It’s not about individual feelings and emotions – who cares? – but mere mad dreaming and practical instructions on how to survive against the grain in this day and age.
”Savusauna” lists mental hygiene pro tips on the do’s and don’t of traditional Finnish smoke sauna behaviour.
The plea for small scale local independence in “Pirkanmaa itsenäiseksi” manifests the supposed injustice suffered in a modern welfare state: “We have suffered from the arbitrariness of the Finns for a long time / our children have been robbed to schools as cannon fodder for the bourgeoisie…” So true!
“Kesäyö” is the perfect soundtrack for winter solstice in any given hemisphere.
