Digging the "Life in a Northern Town" vibe from this new one from Finnish rock trio Joensuu 1685 titled "Light in the Heart of Our Town". Earlier this year, Joensuu 1685 returned with their first new song in a decade, the aptly titled " Hey My Friend (We're Here Again)." Today, they've announced that their sophomore album ÖB will be out in October.
"It's about an image of a dying town," Mikko Joensuu said of their newest track. "About a person in front of a gas station right at the edge of town, seeing the town and seeing oneself, what was, what is and what will be. It's an image of the hope that runs deep in our bones..."
Of the upcoming new album, the band say "We started to write the songs in 2008 in Helsinki, jamming intensely. By 2010 we did two recording sessions in a small cabin next to a vast field in the heart of Öströbotnia, that's when we knew we're doing the album ÖB. That's when the vision became clear. It was nearly done in 2010, then we just left it there and didn't touch it for 8 years. When we got back to it in 2018 we wanted to return to the vision we had ten years before. Revisit our former selves and bring a piece of our past to the present, bring ÖB back to life, raise it from the dead". ÖB is out on October 9 on Gems Records.
SHORT BIO: Formed in 2007, Joensuu 1685 is an alternative rock band based in Helsinki, Finland. Band consisting of brothers Markus Joensuu (drums) and Mikko Joensuu (vocals, guitar, Farfisa) and Risto Joensuu (bass) is not related but shares the same surname.
