Neapolitan

• Burning Hearts ‎– Aboa Sleeping
  • from: Ostrobothnia, Finland
  • album released: February 10th, 2009
  • tracks:
    1. I Lost My Color Vision 4:21
    2. Iris 2:55
    3. Various Lives 4:22
    4. The Galloping Horse 3:25
    5. We Walked Among The Trees 4:02
    6. Sea Birds 5:13
    7. A Peasant's Dream 2:25
    8. Close To Her 4:16
    9. Aboa Sleeping 3:29
  • members:
    • Henry Ojala (former drummer and multi-instrumentalist of Cats On Fire)
    • Jessika Rapo (former singer of Le Futur Pompiste)

1. Burning Hearts ‎– I Lost My Color Vision


7. Burning Hearts - A Peasant's Dream


The music is indie & Synth Pop with ambient textures. Jessika sings with a soft and sincere voice in an unassuming way, which blends well with the music. I listened to the songs few times before I actually paid attention to the lyrics. Once I did I found the lyrics to be intelligent and introspective.

There seems to be a reoccurring examples of flora and fauna scattered throughout the album tying their songs together. They are found in few of the songs titles, others found within the lines of the songs. (And this imagery also carries over to the cover art work of their latest album Extinctions.)

It seems they've taken a few hooks from the 80s. The one note which starts opening track reminds me of the introduction of Soft Cell's Tainted Love, but just a single note of it. I Walked Among The Trees has a wobbly riff that reminds me of Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie. Sea Birds has synth generated effect of seagulls, very much like Talk Talk - It's My Life.

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