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Merging the outer limits of hypno-rock and anthemic synthesizer workouts, Finland's SIINAI prepare to release their debut album "Olympic Games" in the US through Splendour Records (Casiokids, His Clancyness, Brad Laner).  Stemming from a scene of like-minded Finnish neo-kraut acts K-X-P, Joensu 1685, and Zebra and Snake; SIINAI is a fairly fresh project (less than a year old) but already the band is already making waves secured a reputation as a killer live act and acclaim from the European press in their short existence. 

SIINAI’s debut album “Olympic Games” (due February 21st in the US) is a motorik marathon taking the listener on a vast journey through many peaks and troughs, with grandiose hooks, psychedelic soundscapes, and melodies of grief and relief meeting with entrancing repetition and perfect pacing. Rich in influences you can hear bits of their krautrock forebearers Harmonia, Vangelis, Popol Vuh, Tangerine Dream but also the high-decibel trance rock of Loop, My Bloody Valentine, and Spacemen 3. The result of that musical DNA makes for quite an inspired debut, with tension-filled synth-soaked epics that manage to be muscular and pumped up as well as expressively majestic and painterly.

"The mostly instrumental Olympic Games borrows the relentless rhythms of Krautrockers La Dusseldorf and lays occasional chanting, hymn-like vocals over them. A keyboard wash interweaves with swatches of fuzz guitar. A fairly threatening sound, it’s vaguely totalitarian. Seeing them live earlier this year in Denmark left an effect that hasn’t worn off. Olympic Games confirms that no one does mesmerising repetition like a Finn."-Kieron Tyler (MOJO)

"Music that builds tension, almost creating images inside your mind, makes me lean towards the opinion that this is an artist perfect for creating music for the moving image.”-The 405

“Olympic Games will whisk you through the saga of some mythical track and field battle fought on a sun-scorched stadium in the distant, imaginary past, from the tense anticipation of the preparations for the race (the mightily pounding ‘Anthem 1 + 2′) to the winner embarking on the lap of victory (the soaring synth melodies ‘Victory’s bubbling drone erupts into), creating a clear sense of musical identity most retro-Krautanauts struggle to achieve.”-The Line of Best Fit