Burning Hearts: Extinctions

Love to Extinctions:

VICE 10/10 (Best album of the month): “The arrangements are impeccable and the melodies and harmonies are impressing. Hell, even the lyrics are good.”

Allmusic.com 4/5: “Despite the heaviness in the words, the bulk of the album’s music is surprisingly sunny and bright; full of lightly jangling guitars, smooth toned synths, and Rapo’s wonderfully sweet vocals.”

The Fader.com: “I can’t help but picture the whole record staged under a small, warm waterfall, something South Pacific with magically varying water pressure from song to song.”

Upsala Nya Tidning 4/5: “Det är en fascinerande, nygammal mix av elektropop, folklore och 80-talistisk new wave som Burning hearts levererar. Pop och passion i ganska så oemotståndlig blandning.”

Gaffa.se 4/6: ”Sångerskan Jessika Rapos sångstil doftar Stereolab över ett flödande och snyggt popackompanjemang av kristallklara gitarrer och ena stunden isande, andra stunden blomstrande synthmattor.”

reviews in Finnish:

Soundi 5/5: “Kaksikon popteoksissa on käsityöhenkistä lämpöä ja yksityiskohtien tajua. Rytmitaustat ovat vaihtelevia, synalinjat herkullisen melodisia ja helisevät kitarakuviot hyvällä maulla sinne tänne ripoteltu.”

Rumba 4/5: “Extinctions ei haikaile opportunistisesti tanssilattialla soitetuksi tulemisesta ja siitä hohkaava lämpö on syntikkapopille harvinaista.”

Sue 9/10: “Sydämeni on tulessa. Haluaisin kirjoittaa, että Burning Heartsin kakkosalbumi on vuoden kotimainen levy, mutta en uskalla, koska nyt eletään vasta helmikuuta.”

Nuorgam 80: “…jos kuuntelija malttaa keskittyä, levyn maailma aukeaa varovaisesti ja paljastaa jotain hyvää ja kaunista.”

Desibeli.net 4/5: “…kevyesti tanssittavat rytmit, hyräilemään viekoittelevat melodiat ja viimeisen päälle hiotut soundit saavat myhäilemään suomalaisen indiemusiikin puolesta.”

Vertigo 5/5: “Ainoa ongelma muodostuukin siitä, että on mahdotonta päättää mikä kaikista hienoista biiseistä olisi se paras. Onneksi ei tarvitse.”

Nyt-liite: “Femma-gaalassa myös Nyt-liite antaa kunniamaininnan nousussa olevalle, hienolle artistille. Tänä vuonna se on turkulainen kitarapopbändi Burning Hearts.”

Burning Hearts media highlights and synch so far:

Solina Records artists got three nominations in Emma-awards, the Finnish equivalent of Grammy Awards!
Burning Hearts have been nominated in two Emma categories, one for “Critics Choice of Album of The Year” for “Extinctions” and the award for the “Best Album Cover Art of the Year”!

The Best Album Of The Year 2012 – Burning Hearts: Extinctions (SUE magazine)
http://www.sue.fi/2012/12/sue-valitsi-vuoden-levyt-2/
http://www.sue.fi/2012/12/vuoden-levyt-2012-suen-toimittajien-listat/

Burning Hearts “Extinctions” in Off The Radar’s top 25 albums of 2012:
http://www.offtheradarmusic.com/2012/12/off-radars-25-favorite-albums-of-2012.html

NRGM has Burning Hearts #11 on their Best Albums of 2012 list:
http://www.nrgm.fi/artikkelit/nuorgamin-totuus-maailman-parhaat-levyt-vuonna-2012-sijat-50-1/

One of The Albums of the Year 2012:
Burning Hearts: Extinctions
http://www.onechord.net/2012/12/09/albums-of-the-year-2012-the-finnish-edition/

Burning Hearts! #28 on top 40 best albums of 2012 list at www.therealmusic.net
http://www.therealmusic.net/top-40-albums-of-2012

Laut.de – biggest online music site in Germany:
http://www.laut.de/Burning-Hearts

Burning Hearts Mixtape: Songs in the Sauna for Under the Radar magazine
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_burning_hearts_mixtape/

http://soundcloud.com/laura-studarus/burning-hearts-mixtape-songs

Burning Hearts´ “Into The Wilderness” was 6 weeks in B-rotation on the playlist of P6 BEAT in Danish national radio!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXOcOUQIRrk

Les Inrocks
http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/critique-album/burning-hearts-pop-vaporeuse/

The Arts Desk: http://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/just-scandinavia-nordic-music-round-4?page=0%2C2

Burning Hearts on Radio France with Julien Burgeois.
Show can be also streamed on the page until 17.10.2012.
http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em/label-pop/emission.php?e_id=105000065&d_id=515002822

Burning Hearts video premiere Under The Radar!
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premiere_burning_hearts_video_modern_times/

Nice review from UK about Flow Festival and according to the review Burning Hearts provided some of the unexpected highlights of the weekend. http://breakingmorewaves.blogspot.fi/2012/08/flow-festival-review-2012.html

The Line of The Best Fit
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/photos/festival-galleries/flow-festival-2012-sunday-suvilahti-helsinki-102231#.UCkbIv4XTKw.facebook

Great article about Finnish indie scene from The Fox Is Black (US), mentions lots of nice Finnish bands as well as our beloved Burning Hearts …
(The Fox Is Black was named Best Highbrow Arts Blog in Los Angeles by L.A. Weekly in 2011.)
http://www.thefoxisblack.com/2012/08/06/music-in-finland-part-i/

…and another great Burning Hearts article from The Fox Is Black http://www.thefoxisblack.com/2011/10/10/various-lives-by-burning-hearts/

http://www.indie30.com/component/content/article/36-news-archive/828-video-premiere-burning-hearts-modern-times.html

Burning Hearts´”I lost my colour vision” featured today in comedy series “I Just Want My Pants Back” in Episode 11 on MTV USA.
http://soundtrack.mtv.com/post/category/shows/i_just_want_my_pants_back/

Burning Hearts in Les Inrocks! http://www.lesinrocks.com/musique/musique-article/t/79791/date/2012-03-16/article/cinq-groupes-a-suivre-86/

Good review from Germany:
http://guenter-ramsauer.suite101.de/burning-hearts-prasentieren-ihr-album-extinctions-a133347

Kritiker: http://www.kritiker.se/skivor/recension/?skiva=Burning_Hearts__-__Extinctions

das klienicum: http://dasklienicum.blogspot.de/2012/04/burning-hearts-extinctions-2012.html

pop stereo review: http://popstereoreviews.blogspot.fi/2012/04/burning-hearts-are-not-extinct.html

MTV Iggy:
http://www.mtviggy.com/articles/finland-rising-indie-cred-emerges-from-the-tundra/#.UCIuIJeI4eE.facebook

http://www.ohfancy.de/blog/2012/04/21/aktuell-horenswert-die-burning-hearts-mit-neuer-single-burn-burn-burn-im-stream-videoclip-zu-into-the-wilderness/

http://www.revolver-club.de/musik/plattenkritiken/2012/burning-hearts-extinctions.html

Indie30: “Jessika Rapo’s spacious and uniquely warm vocals sit perfectly alongside Henry Ojala cautiously lush instrumentation and each track is marked by deliberately and carefully crafted pop structures where attention to detail is ever present but never overbearing.”
http://www.indie30.com/component/content/article/36-news-archive/632-burning-hearts-release-extinctions-today.html