Screen Vinyl Image - The Midnight Sun EP

In a previous life I worked for a large Finnish corporation and was fortunate to have traveled to Finland numerous times. By far, the summer was the best time to visit there since a day never really ends during the months of July and August. It was hard though to get up and go to work everyday since the midnight sun made it difficult to sleep at night.

Memories of my time spent in Finland started to stir the other day when I received in the mail a copy of Screen Vinyl Image's The Midnight Sun EP. Obviously, the EP's title was the cue to those good repressed memories and listening to the title track sure didn't slow things down. The song starts with a syncopated beat and about the one minute mark a fuzzed out droning guitar comes into play with a complement of echoing vocals entering through the mix. Further in the song erupts in a distorted fuzzed out haze creating an image of the Finnish summer midnight sun creeping thru the window blinds.

Screen Vinyl Image are J. Sequential and Electra Blue and their debut EP will be out on April 3rd on the small DC label Safranin Sound & Design (a label created by members of Alcian Blue). The Midnight Sun EP is a heady blend of synths and echoed guitars that create a surreal ride through it's layers of sound. It's a futuristic, expansive sound and is one that reveals something new on every listen.

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mp3 The Midnight Sun

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Buy The Midnight Sun EP (April 3rd) at Tonevendor and Safranin Sound

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