about to leave and go back to a place where no one speaks my language but here's a few bangers that i'll make my spouse listen to in the car!!
markus krunegård - tilulilulauluja (tilulilu songs, lol idk how to translate tilulilu with one word, it can mean jingles and chimes, nonsense, or playing the guitar fast) this is a well-known swedish artist with finnish heritage (a sweden finn) who mostly makes music in swedish, but recently he's started releasing songs in his mother tongue. this is my summer bop of 2026!!! the chorus is half in finnish, half in swedish: jumala mitä mä teen sun kanssa, jag vill bara var i flow och dansa (god what am i gonna do with you, i just wanna be in the flow and dance).
vesta - tilaisuus teki varkan (opportunity made a thief)
vilma jää - manalan mailla (in the land of the dead) i'm not interested in these games, but vilma jää is such an interesting artist it's great she's getting more international recognition and bringing finnish folk culture to new audiences!!! her new album has so many bangers!!!
saimaa - edestakaisin (back and forth) this is a super group with a million members, i feel like they're the antidote to the ai-generated tiktok song. this song is a juice leskinen cover and goes hard.
pilven piirtäjät - lapsuuden viimeinen kesä (last summer of childhood)
ylva haru - sydän auki (heart open)
ursus factory - sadetakin pintaan (onto the surface of a raincoat)
antti autio - avaruus (space) omg when i first heard this song earlier this year i nearly fainted. antti autio the person that you are!! kuljin miltei tämän maailman läpi ilman että kukaan näki / miten sisälläni pimeys aina vaeltaa / mut sä katsoit kerran avaruuteen, tähden viereen salaisuuteen /ei se pimeyttä ollutkaan, vaan valoa ilman todistajaa, excuse me????? i walked through almost all this world without anyone ever seeing / the darkness that wanders within me / but then you looked into the space, into a secret beside a star / and it was never darkness at all, only light without a witness.
