#elin blom

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FELIN - Black Heart

Eschewing the power-pop of their early works, FELIN, the Swedish duo of Fredrik Etoall and Elin Blom get down and dirty with their bluesy rock ‘n roll on with “Black Heart”.Taking place on the streets of Cuba, FELIN’s latest video introspection is a bit of a spontaneous affair, where its protagonists and antagonists are taken in by the spur of the moment. Crass with a little bit of sass, the soundtrack to “Black Heart’ is met with the sultry glaze of vocalist Elin Blom’s vocals and contrasted to the grungy grit of its surfy guitar riffs. Speaking the candid nature of the track and what their upcoming album will entail, FELIN had this to say:

"When we wrote the upcoming album, I wanted to build it as if it were a movie, filled with dark humour, sex, revenge, love and death. The whole album is inspired by a darkness, a passionate and destructive relationship with life and the constant reminder that everything is just on loan for a brief moment. There is something so damn beautiful about that. In ‘Black Heart’, I imagined what goes on in a serial killer’s head when he or she is on the hunt for the next victim. It’s a dark love story about being so obsessed that you can no longer think clearly, nor do you care about the consequences of your actions. The people of the streets of Cuba are the stars and inspiration of this colorful video.”

You can check out the track and the pop hedonism of her previous track “21st Century”:

“21st Century”

“Black Heart”

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FELIN - Gossip

Starting off with a slow and low, FELIN's angst-filled track "Gossip" turns into a track of erupting pop/rock fury. Against its solemn piano backing, the ballad builds on the heaping emotion of grungy guitar shreds and the visceral, deep-cutting sounds of vocalist Elin Blom's scream and shout. A cathartic rage as evidenced through its lyrics, the Swedish pop duo put together two videos for the effort, one with its lyrics scrawled over in stop-motion and their proper, more animated release. "Gossip" appears on the similarly-toned EP "Felin" which you can check out below and on Spotify:

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FELIN - Bored

While the duo of FELIN (a portmanteau of Fredrik Etoall and Elin Blom), aren’t necessarily “Big in Japan” just yet, rest assured they made their presence known with “Bored”. Certainly not a passive track, “Bored” is a loud and outspoken single. Shocking jolts of guitar meld in with the boom/clap percussion as a fired-up Elin spews her rallying chants against the distortion of the noise-pop single. As for its video, there’s an effortless cool as it witnesses our classy and sassy Elin strolling down the streets of Toyko with drink in hand. 

Shot in black and white and viewed through the lens of bandmate Fredrik Etoall, you can check out the video below: 

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YAYA - It’s Alright (feat. FELIN)

In case you missed it, YAYA and FELIN put out their latest video and girl-power moment for “It’s Alright”.Rummaging along with its grungy electro-pop vibe, “It’s Alright” jolts with the energy of its two loud and proud vocalists. Featuring YAYA’s Caroline Ljungström standing beside her comrade-in-arms Elin Blom of FELIN, their latest video is one to put females first, showcasing their cast of individuals of all  ages, colors and shades.

You can check out the video below:

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YAYA - It’s Alright (feat. FELIN)

Continuing in the vein of her last track “Bad Girls”, YAYA’s Caroline Ljungström once again pushes another fun first, regret later type track with “It’s Alright”. Featuring FELIN, the duo of Elin Blom and Fredrik Etoall, the staccato of the track is accompanied by bursting vocals spurts by Caroline and Elin which bounce off the beaming electronics, quick drum rolls and the looping guitar riffs inserted courtesy of team FELIN. A radio-friendly track built with a DIY mindset, you can check out “It’s Alright” below:

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From time to time I try to follow up on what the Swedish public service radio channels play, mainly the one called P3, which has a more youthful target audience. It’s quite seldom that you find Finnish artists on their playlist, but today one showed up - Felin. 

I’ve written about her before (over here), but you might remember her as the young Elin Blom, originally from a small place called Terjärv in Ostrobothnia, western Finland. She tried out for the Finnish Eurovision Song Contest selection with her band Sister Twister and participated in the Swedish version of the Idol-format in the same year, back in 2010. 

In 2012 she appeared with a music video under the moniker Miss Bloom, but now she’s gone and changed that to Felin and with the song Revolt she is now on the P3 playlist. She lives in Stockholm now and works with Swedish musicians, so maybe that helps. Either way, great rock track so congratulations are in order!

Funnily enough this track was released already in February and the second single called Teenage Soul just came out (look for it here).

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New music video from Elin Blom, who seems to have adopted the name Miss Bloom.

This very dedicated and goal-oriented young woman, who comes from Terjärv in Ostrobothnia, started out very young as the lead singer in a band called Sister Twister (not to be confused with the quite similarly named rock band of 80's and make-up greatness).

They won a couple of talent shows and ended up in fourth place in the Finnish preselection to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010 with the somewhat grammatically challenged song Love At The First Sight.

That same year the only 16-year old Elin participated in the Swedish version of Idol (her native language is Swedish) and ended up in sixth place.

Pretty good some might say, but she wasn't about to settle for "pretty good". She was at the time studying in Stockholm but she seems to have had her sights higher than the Swedish capital even then. In an interview after the Idol-competition she said that she was aiming for the United States and it seems she's followed through on that aim as she has moved to Los Angeles, the star factory of the western world.

I read in one article that this video, for the song Kung Fu, was filmed in Los Angeles, but I don't think that's right. It looks a lot more like Stockholm and the director Nikeisha Andersson is Swedish. 

But you can check out her blog (in Swedish) if you're looking for evidence of her living in California.

'nuff said.