PIETU ARVOLA - Silmät sulaa LP Shoegaze His focus quickly turned inward

His focus quickly turned inward

post rock and improvisational playing

I think this has to do with how each little unit of ‘content’ happens at a different distance from your ear

supportive friend advice and embarrassing confessions

This was the first time that Big Thief had ever brought in a 5th instrumentalist for such a significant contribution

PIETU ARVOLA - Silmät sulaa LP Shoegaze His focus quickly turned inwardFollowing his brilliant but unrelentingly sorrowful previous album, Arvola returns with Silmt sulaa a record he describes as my summer album. And of course, its warmth feels more like a heatstroke from a sun too close. Inside the sun kissed soundscapes drift memories of sunburnt skin, the burning of a childhood home, heat exhaustion during an At The Gates show, the smell of melting asphalt, and a bat circling above a hospital bed, struck mid air by a