Laulu Laakson Kukista

Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
Critic Score
Based on 5 reviews
2008 Ratings: #17 / 806
User Score
Based on 51 ratings
2008 Rank: #81
Liked by 8 people
July 22, 2008 / Release Date
LP / Format
Fonal Records / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

84
Coke Machine Glow
Maybe that’s the real spiritual value of the album: rather than impress their personal convictions, the band acts as a conduit for all these forces to combine and radiate like a prism.
83
Pitchfork
Finnish collective on the Fonal label scatters Europop, rustic folk, pastel electronics, and woolen drones like a tossed deck of playing cards.
83
A.V. Club
The group functions as a collective led by two born-again Christians, but the sounds they make suggest Christians of an extraordinarily mystical sort.
80
PopMatters

Laulu Laakson Kukista is an almost perfect example of a band moving forward without forgetting what it was that made them loveable in the first place, of how to make music with a wider appeal without sacrificing the reason people were paying attention in the first place.

80
AllMusic

Songs like the sea-shanty-goes-Jacques Brel "Italialaisella Laivalla" and the more openly indie-pop "Tytto Tanssii," with its guitar lope and synth-horn break floating over a softly rumbling cloud of melancholic, echoing textures, further add to the understated but enjoyable variety of a fine album.

Doofy
72

Liquid shimmering sound collage of alien folk - hard to get a grasp on but that doesn't stop the enjoyment.

40Rats
92

Another real amazing album from paavoharju! This band just tickles a real specific part of my brain and it feels so goddamn good.

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