Hevoset (side A)

Yet another strange-sounding Finnish band that I don't know a lot about. Hevoset (2008) throws some trebly feedback sounds into the idiomatically typical mix of acoustic instruments and primitive percussion. There are no vocals here, but the tunes somehow seem to evolve in a more song-like fashion than some similar albums with vocals. The bright feedback sounds lead to a bit less murky feel and give a more open, energetic sense of space. Hevoset strikes me as one of the stronger records of its geographically isolated micro-genre, even if it's hard to articulate why. The weird and vaguely psychedelic cover drawing is interesting and appropriate, too.