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Metri Painaa Kilon is, more or less, the core backing band of the legendary Can Can Heads. They share four members (only two sorry...:kgm) , although founders Tomi Nuotio and vocalist/world-class interpretive dancer Mikko Lehtonen have stepped aside to let them forge their own identity.

Gone are the improvisational aspects of their predecessors. In place comes tightly controlled exercises of an entirely different form of chaos than Can Can Heads trafficked in. This album is so tightly wound in its mission, and I find something in “Avaruudessa kasvaa pituutta” that’s desperately lacking in most noise rock specifically.

It’s indifferent to current Finnish musical trends. It’s certainly not AmRep-lite. There’s no Albini-worship. Production budget is shoestring, but I still do hear the influence of more polished noise rock. Or maybe I’m just hearing the remnants of Bad Vugum.

More folks need to hear this outside of faux-Scandinavia.
The band’s members were also in Valse Triste, Susi-Unto , and MurhaMurhaItsemurha.
Dusted & Social

With a no wave, no fucks given spirit, Metri Painaa Kilon’s “Avaruudessa Kasvaa Pituutta” defies near all possible categorization. The closest to this raw, unhinged energy level is Red Krayola’s “Soldier Talk”. Like that one, there is a discernible structure to the overall chaos though it only becomes apparent with multiple listens. Rhythms blast their way through with nary a thought given to ever slowing anything down. Metri Painaa Kilon let it all out, with a loose style and attention to riffs that focuses on a burrowing into the skull level of repetition.

Feedback introduces “intro” before they dive headfirst into the infectiously catchy spirit of “ihmisjäte”. On “ihmisjäte” a pop-like melody emerges out of the groove. The glimpse of a slight riff helps to guide the song forward even as the vocals are sung with gleeful abandon. Punk pours out of “järki” as the group veer back and forth between chaos and control. Nearly stripped down is the gritty rumble of “naksuu”. Hyperactive in tone is the keyboard led weaving of “pura”. Harshness of an Arab on Radar variety is the alarm-bell singing work of “rento”. Referencing free jazz is the loose “ystävä”. Bringing the album to a satisfying conclusion is the blur of “vedet”.

“Avaruudessa Kasvaa Pituutta” goes for the utmost oddest kind of delivery, one that stays with the listener long after the album is over, attesting to the power of Metri Painaa Kilon’s level of outright oddity.
Beachsloth