RAIN FEELINGS

Ous Mal - Merilaulu

This new record from Finland's Ous Mal sounds waterlogged & weatherbeaten & partially decomposed. But only partially, fortunately for us - you can still hear the plink-plonk piano playing around the searing buzz of the broken down tape and ambient noise and weird electronic references. It's an enchanting combination of some pretty disparate influences; it doesn't take long for the dubstep and hip-hop elements to push through the warped-out folktronica, and the result is surprisingly organic. It crowds you in, but never feels claustrophobic; I don't know how they did that.

[Ous Mal MySpace]

[Buy Nuojuva Halava from Preservation]