Pietu Arvola
Silmät sulaa
Limited Yellow Vinyl28€
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180g Yellow Vinyl, Ltd edition of 100
"Let your eyeballs melt while listening to these beautifully textured aural explorations of all things hot."
–Jan Anderzén (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset ystävät)
Described by Arvola as his “summer album,” Silmät sulaa (Eyes Melt) is less a pastoral escape and more a hallucinatory collage of fragmented nostalgia. Composed over two winter months in early 2024, the album unfolds like a fever dream, where memories of blissful family summer holidays collide with impressions of a burning childhood home and the harrowing yellow gleam of melting candy eyeballs.
The record arcs from the luscious ambient string motifs of Side A into a side B that spirals into a more unstable, otherworldly terrain. Utilizing a tactile arsenal of daxophone, Cocoquantus, and modular synthesis, Arvola sometimes processes these textures through reel-to-reel tape, allowing the compositions to slowly unravel and decay. It is a brilliant, uneasy study of memory refracted through a lens of modern experimentalism.
Album credits:
Music written, performed, recorded & produced by Pietu Arvola
Mixed by Ville-Matti Koskiniemi
Mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k Mastering)
Cover photo: Arvola family album
Illustration by Pietu Arvola
Layout by Teemu Into