for those who don’t know, Fonal is a label out of Finland that specializes in strange and beautiful psychedlic music that should appeal to “new weird america” fans. download whatever you can by Kemialliset Ystvat, Islaja, and Shogun Kunitoki (who are really more like Stereolab than freakfolk). but be sure to make your first, and i mean FIRST PRIORITY “Yha Hamaraa” by Paavoharju, which is surely one of the most beautiful, haunting and flat-out remarkable records i’ve heard in the last… i dunno… let’s cut it off at a decade.

the rest i can’t speak for (until just now these were extremely hard releases to get ahold of, spendy too) but i look forward to exploring more in detail.