Finland, with your excellent alternative pop scene you're really spoiling us! Actually that Ferraro Rocher joke will most likely be completely lost on anyone who's actually reading this in Finland, or anywhere outside the UK for that matter. Anyway, we do feel as though the Scandinavian country is punching well above its weight at the moment, perhaps proving that there are still little safe havens where the quality of music that sells still matters. Most of the great UK bands barely get within spitting distance of the arse-end of the charts. Helsinki's Freeweights have been together for under a year and started with the goal of making pop music free from outside pressures.
Easier said than done, or so you'd think. Maybe the creative scene in the city lends itself better to this form of music making. 'End Scene' is definitely, and defiantly, a pop song. It has big pop beats and a definite hint of former Scandinavian chart-botherers like A-ha and Roxette, but it's far too cool to be lumped in with them. What Freeweights have done is taken the big-hitting pop song and updated it, injecting a little DNA from Finland's burgeoning alternative scene to make a song that crosses the barriers between the commercial and the left-field. Well we say that, but who are we trying to kid? In reality this is pretty much just a big pop song, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Freeweights' website
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