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Finnish band Kiila start off their record 'Heartcore' with 'Contemporaries'. "The people who make your world are your contemporaries." Besides this illuminating statement the song contains radio static: By picking a station, Niko and Sami construct their own world. Other instruments used as building blocks range from various organs to bowed saws. But what does it all look like in 'Heartcore'-land? Apparently dark and dreary. The listener travels from burnt land ('Verbranntes Land'), which is sonically expressed by a Can-groove and White Light/White Heat-type feedback to a 'Crystal Field', with a storm rumbling in the background. The title track is a melange of organ and delay-pedal sounds, which shows that not only Add N To (X) were influenced by the heavier side of Krautrock. From the plaintive vocals on 'Set the Storm Aside' to the improv 'She's Too Good', with its clattering saucers and cups in the background, you discover there can be a soft side to Kiila as well. Other people who enter Kiila's world can be heard on two other songs. The first being children repeatedly singing 'Fireburnfoot', while the latter contains a mantra of 'Holy Melancholy', sung by a deep voice. The closure of the record contains some hope in the form of 'Heartflowers', although I doubt flora really thrives on sputtering beats and feedback. Or maybe it does in Kiila's world?
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