Etched in the icy ethereal soundscape of their Helsinki homeland, Finland (by way of newcomers White Balance), again engages us with a smattering of new emerging acts.
The scandic nation is really beginning to pull up in the ranks alongside its much music applauded neighbours of Sweden and Russia, particularly. That it lies geographically between the both you’d not be too hard pressed to make assumptions that the crosswind of glacial air didn’t offer up plenty buzz of creative energy seeping from the outskirts of its borders.
Joining the crop of new acts surging through in making Finland a comparable haven of new music discovery, the duo of White Balance are flagging down the route of intricate and affirming melody making, stealing in more than a splash of chillingly imbued vocal aura along the way.
In making our growing headcount of Finnish emerging pop acts, White Balance, Maaria Nuoranne and Ilari Heinilä are indebted to leave their mark on us via the dreamily attentive strains filtered up of latest otherworldly transcending release “Hunter”.
Resting on the balance of this our introduction to White Balance, we’re linking right in with the empyrean presiding vocal content served atop of these gleamingly streamlined electronics. For it is shivering yet all at once exuding a sense of introspective vulnerability which plays right into the eclectically sourced alt-pop calling card, that has well served the likes of Lykke Li, Mr Little Jeans, Oh Land and Bat For Lashes, before them.