poets of the fall.
gosh, i don't know why i haven't listened to more of this band's music yet - i should have ever since i fell in love with carnival of rust, which is still one of the top songs of my playlist (FOR YEARS). i have not gotten sick of it at all! O_O
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the frontman, marko - his voice is beautiful. gawd, just listen to this. unplugged mind you, unplugged!! HOW BEAUTIFUL. the hairs on my arms are standing! (hahaha and his blur look at the end is quite adorkable :))
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and their music has both a lovely alt rock flavour infused with some what i would presume is folk influences. which is gorgeous.
you'll see what i mean in this song:
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i also can't stop listening to this one now. isn't it haunting!?
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i tell you, it's so hard for my favourite bands to ever come to my country :( especially since my favourite bands are often not particularly popular or hail from strange lands. POTF hails from finland. hipster bands and k-pop artistes come alot these days, but no luck for alt rock. dammit.