First single off her new album, “Naivi”, this song is a great example of how singer Yona combines flamboyant sound of the 60s/70s soul with local sensivity, and what sets her apart from the recent retromania – lyrics in Finnish.

“No matter how much you love another person you can never really own him or her. It’s easy to say but it’s really hard to realize in reality, and that’s what’s the song is about,” Iisa Pykäri told Swede and Sour about the new video from her just-released second solo album.

For the debut single of a new artist, “Waterproof” is excitingly mature and unpretentious with its straightforward radio-friendliness. At the same time, Lyel saves enough delicacy in her pop-appeal never to go too far in her catchiness.

I first heard this former Helsinki tram-driver’s psychedelic and gripping 80s electropop at the Danish SPOT Festival in 2014.

On her new album, “Astrid4”, Helsinki-based singer-songwriter Astrid Swan abandonded rock ‘n roll stylings for a more soulful expression.

Delay Trees’ third full-length album, “Readymade”, is their best so far, striking gold in the middle of krautrock repetition, post-rock grandeur and indiepop sensibility.

When she’s not fronting the marvelous electropop trio Regina, the immensely charming Iisa Pykäri is busy with her solo project as Iisa. In February she released her eponymous debut and here’s the first album single, “Perjantai”.