{"id":14950,"date":"2021-03-30T17:34:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T17:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=14950"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:34:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T17:34:30","slug":"paisley-underground-celebrated-by-young-finnish-rockers-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2021\/03\/30\/paisley-underground-celebrated-by-young-finnish-rockers-us\/","title":{"rendered":"“Paisley Underground” celebrated by young Finnish rockers US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stuck in Helsinki with the Covid-19 blues, this young quintet utilizes irresistible hooks and psychedelic\u00a0guitars in tribute to the 1980s Los Angeles music scene that brought forth The Bangles, The Dream Syndicate, The Rain Parade, and The Three O’Clock<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Paisley Underground” video debuts today<\/strong><\/a>

“Paisley Underground” b\/w Sly Stone’s “Help Me” is out August 20\u00a0on 7″ vinyl; Pre-order now\u00a0at\u00a0Bandcamp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finnish rock band Us today unveils the video for \u201cPaisley Underground,\u201d a highly addictive burst of neo-psychedelia complimented by trippy visuals.\u00a0 Already available digitally, the track will be released as a 7\u201d vinyl single on August 20\u00a0via Grandmother Corn Records. The vinyl will be backed with \u201cHelp Me,\u201d a cover of a pre-Family Stone track by Sylvester Stewart. The 7\u201d vinyl is available for pre-order at\u00a0Bandcamp<\/a>.
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Previously operating under the name Grandmother Corn, the Helsinki-based quintet has already released three albums and made a trio of visits to the UK and Europe. A fourth tour had been planned for last year\u00a0but was cancelled due to Covid-19. With an end to the pandemic finally in sight, the band has rebranded itself as \u201cUs<\/a>\u201d and they look forward to resuming the loud, roof-raising concerts that have marked them as a band to watch. \u00a0
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For their first release as Us, the band found inspiration in the Californian musical subculture of the early 1980s known as the\u00a0Paisley Underground<\/a>. Itself a direct revival of the acid-drenched \u201860s, the movement was spearheaded by such college radio bands as The Bangles, The Dream Syndicate, Green on Red, The Long Ryders, The Rain Parade, The Three O\u2019Clock, and True West.\u00a0 With its heavy droning guitars, crisp drumming, and punkish lead vocal, Us\u2019 \u201cPaisley Underground\u201d is a worthy new addition to the canon.\u00a0
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\u201c’Paisley Underground\u2019 was written last February after a concert in Manchester,\u201d said vocalist\/guitarist Teo Hirvonen. \u201cWe were sitting in a hostel lobby reading about the bushfires\u00a0in Australia and the outbreak of the pandemic in China. The Bangles\u2019 ‘Walk Like an Egyptian’\u00a0came on the radio, and while I certainly don\u2019t consider that song to be an anthem for the Paisley Underground, it did remind me how much I loved that music. We spent the morning working out the arrangement, and the lyrics address not being able to go anywhere or to see anybody.\u201d
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Hirvonen created the new video himself, and the geometric shapes superimposed on the images were directly influenced by the sleeve artwork of The Dream Syndicate\u2019s classic 1982 debut album,\u00a0The Days of Wine and Roses<\/em>. The video was filmed in Helsinki in winter during lockdown.
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Hirvonen, the main songwriter in the group, is joined by his brothers Pan Hirvonen (harmonica) and Max Somerjoki (guitar, vocals), alongside Henri Lintula (drums) and Rasmus Ruonakoski (bass). Pan is the eldest of the group at 26, while Max is the youngest at 19.
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Us are\u00a0currently at work writing a fourth album, but for now they find escape in the lyrics for their new video: \u201cI\u2019m dreaming about the Paisley Underground \/ A place where nothing could bring us down.\u201d
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The B-side of the August vinyl release of \u201cPaisley Underground\u201d is \u201cHelp Me,\u201d a cover of a 1961 track by the Californian group The Viscaynes which featured a young Sylvester Stewart (later to be known as Sly Stone). Originally recorded as \u201cHelp Me with My Broken Heart,\u201d the song was written by George Motola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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