Listen: Siinai - "Vasikka" [Premiere]

06 June 2014, 10:15 | Written by Charlotte Krol

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Finnish quartet Siinai are back this year with the follow-up to 2011’s critically-acclaimed debut, Olympic Games. This time, the band present a concept album centred around the daily grudge of - wait for it - visiting the supermarket. At first, new song “Vasikka”, couldn’t sound further from the truth of screaming kids and gloomy yellowed lighting.

At least, that’s what supermarkets in Britain feel like. Perhaps it’s different in Finland. The band note the new album as an “experiment of walking through the sliding doors of a supermarket and finding yourself in very different place full of colours, lights, smells and busy people” or “Looking at the supermarket experience from a different perspective, finding something where, at least we, hadn’t found it before that excited us.” Sounds pretty intriguing.

“Vasikka”, however, perhaps doesn’t have the full sensory experience of a supposed grocery shop visit, but is another toke of their gorgeous, looped sound. Harnessed by a steady rumble and interspersed with afro-inspired guttural yelps and dreamy guitars, “Vasikka” nods more in the direction of an epic landscape drive or a soul-searching journey. Better still, it leaves us completely intrigued for their new concept record.

Supermarket is released on 17 June via Splendour.