Driving melancholic rock is the name of Finnish group Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus' game. Their music flirts with metal but generally stays within the rock arena and their melodies are of the mournful Finn variety.
Rajaportti is an easily accessible and catchy album. Now, here's the kicker: it's all in their native tongue. I don't speak a lick of Finnish...okay, maybe like three words, but they aren't helping me much with this album. Still, Timo and the gang are masters at communicating emotion through song, even with a language barrier firmly set between us. There is one line that I know is somewhere on the album, although I'm not sure where because again, I don't speak Finn, but I believe it conveys the sentiment of
Rajaportti well, "It is difficult to hang ones self when the ceiling is too low and the rope too thick." Can you argue with that notion? I cannot.
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