Burning Hearts - Aboa Sleeping

Reissue of this 2009 release. Finland's Henry Ojala (Cats on Fire) and Jessika Rapo (Le Futur Pompiste) as Burning Hearts might be greeted as a marriage of the best elements of both members' other bands, but this is truly a matter of the whole being greater than the sum of it's parts. Full of subtle detail & a uniformly warm sound, this is a dream of idealized pop: beautifully understated vocals, melodies as reassuring as a lover's embrace & a tone of intimacy that could only come from collaboration that is fully simpatico.

1) I Lost My Color Vision
2) Iris
3) Various Lives
4) The Galloping Horse
5) We Walked Among the Trees
6) Sea Birds
7) A Peasant's Dream
8) Close to Her
9) Aboa Sleeping