poets of the fall clearview free download . A Finnish rock band. Established in 2003. Originally a three-piece band, consisting of Marko Saaresto, Olli Tukiainen and Markus Kaarlonen. Jaska Mäkinen and Jani Snellman joined in 2005 as additional tour musicians with Jari Salminen following in 2006. Around the release of Twilight Theater (2010) the additional members had become regular band members. Members: Marko Saaresto - vocals (2003–) Olli Tukiainen - guitar (2003–) Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen - keyboards (2003–) Jaska Mäkinen - guitar, backing vocals (2005–) Jani Snellman - bass (2005–) Jari Salminen - drums (2006–) Originally based in Marko's parents' basement with an office in Olli's car. The group has received at least the following awards: Best Finnish Act at MTV Europe Music Awards 2006. Best Finnish Music Video of all time in TV2's Musiikki-TV and Best Music Video of 2006 at The Voice (video ). Two Emma Awards (the Finnish Grammys) in 2005 - the best debut and the best new act. Best Finnish band at the NRJ Radio Awards 2006. Commercial Radio Stations' Newcomer of the Year Award in 2005. Poets of the Fall Clearview. Since their formation in over a decade ago, Poets of the Fall have been delivering quality alternative rock. This is in large part due to vocalist Marko Saaresto, whose emotive vocal performance and poetic lyricism have consistently been an asset, but the other aspect that's made the band stand out is their willingness to change up their sound throughout their discography. Whether it's focusing on hard rock elements ( Revolution Roulette ), a more sweeping, cinematic sound ( Twilight Theater ), or writing unabashed pop songs ( ), the band has been committed to making each album unique from the last. They've kept an accessible sound while avoiding becoming stale like many of their mainstream rock counterparts in America have. Vocally and lyrically, Marko remains in top form, but Clearview , while still very enjoyable, is otherwise less adventurous on the songwriting front than previous albums have been. One thing the band has not forgotten is how to write a catchy hook, which is particularly seen in the album's uptempo opening stretch. 'Drama for Life' provides a dose of spirited hard rock reminiscent of the band's earlier work, while 'The Game' and 'Once Upon a Playground Rainy' are fun melodic rock tracks with infectious choruses that show off the band's pop sensibilities. Although Marko's vocals continue to shine and the hooks remain solid, the album never quite recaptures the energy of those early tracks, particularly as the tempo slows to a crawl toward the end with the balladry of 'Labyrinth' and 'Moonlight Kiss'. Both tracks work well on their own, but the album's latter portion would have been much better served with more uptempo tracks that contrasted their minimalist musical style. Ultimately, Clearview is a solid release from Poets of the Fall that is only let down by playing things a bit too safe on the instrumental side. The solo at the end of 'The Game' is one of Clearview 's highlights, but moments like these are few and far between. Jealous Gods , the band's previous album, was similarly pop-oriented but it featured more diverse songwriting and it still managed to deliver some standout guitar moments. While Clearview still boasts strong hooks, particularly in its first half, and is still a worthwhile listen, a more dynamic musical performance throughout would have taken it even further. Hopefully, Poets of the Fall rediscovers that adventurous streak and branches out from their current pop-rock style, as enjoyable as that can be. If they do, they may still have some of their best work ahead of them. Poets of the Fall: ‘No Time to Get Complacent’ Anyone would count Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall among those ”˜big in India’ artists and it’s not just because they’ve visited the country multiple times in the last decade, but also because they hold the distinction of releasing (via Indian imprint Sa Re Ga Ma) a Best of compilation album. The compilation arrived in 2009, which is pretty early for a band who had been active only since 2003. But they had their time in the sun with songs like “Carnival of Rust” and “The Ultimate Fling” and certainly become one of the most popular artists in their country, topping the Finnish charts with every release. But even now on their eighth album Ultraviolet ”“ which expectedly topped the charts once again ”“ vocalist and founder Marko Saaresto says they aren’t ready to sit back any time soon. “I don’t think there’s any time in one lifetime to get complacent, even if you’re happy with where you are,” he says over email. Saaresto finds a great unifying factor in the global listenership they’ve accrued over the years. “It’s great to have people coming to see us live, singing the songs at the concerts, wearing our t-shirts and all that. It means we have a common ground, a shared understanding that is music and its power to create something good and lasting,” he says. Poets of the Fall head out in search of that common ground once again, promoting Ultraviolet with two shows in India this year, as part of the Bacardi NH7 Weekender in Meghalaya (November 2nd) and the Weekender Express edition in Kolkata (November 3rd). Considering they were one of the artists chosen as a result of a public survey by the festival, Saaresto couldn’t be happier about how they’re making their seventh visit to the country. Excerpts from the interview: I understand this must be your sixth time in the country to come by and perform in India? Not many international bands get this lucky to come down here these many times! In fact, just this month we had someone like ”ªBryan Adams, whom I think you’re about to surpass now in terms of India visits!Â. I think I counted seven just the other day, so that makes quite a few visits to India, yes. And what is it like coming down to India each time and learning something different? You’re going back to Kolkata, where you must have some recollection of it from the previous times you’ve performed there? What stood out for you in that city? It’s true, coming to India is always an opportunity to witness something new and fascinating. It’s also one of those places, where performing is so much fun, because people are really into the music and they are with you all the way at the concert. So it’s great. Kolkata, the previous time, was just amazing. Coming to Ultraviolet , it’s your eighth album. A new album invariably means you end up pushing out a bunch of older songs from the setlist, right? What is that process like?Â. That’s just super tough, because you’d obviously want to play so many songs live. There’s also the time constraints to take into consideration. So you’re left with the task of fitting new material where there’s really no room for it. Easy peasy. But really, it’s also a great way to freshen up the performance. You leave out some stuff you’ve played on the previous tour, and take on some of the new material. The choice is never easy though, and every song takes a lot of work and prepping to get it from the album to the stage, ready to be played live. We always try to think of what the concert structure will be like, in terms of what would it feel and sound like to us, if we were in the audience, what songs would we absolutely want to hear and what would be a nice surprise. Poets of the Fall have approached music from a cinematic perspective, especially on Ultraviolet . Is that fair to say?Â. That’s a good question. I suppose that’s always been one of the approaches we’ve used. For me personally, music is a visual endeavor as much as a visual endeavor is a musical one. Does that make sense to you? I mean, when I write or hear music I see it visually, when I look at images I hear music. Weird, huh? But then, we’ve all got our quirks. The band has certainly found a place in video games (like when “” appeared on 2 and ), but I think it also goes really well with anime shows or TV shows and movies. Has that kind of offer come your way yet?Â. We’ve had some collaborations with films in the past, like the Finnish movie Year of the Wolf , which featured an instrumental version of “Carnival of Rust.” There have also been numerous offers from other film projects over the years, but no anime so far. What the band has certainly admitted to in interviews before is that more than heavier music, there’s darker, more emotive songwriting going on. Is it just an effect of getting older where you just begin to mellow?Â. I think it’s more a matter of what speaks to us personally at the time a piece of music starts to play in our heads and we feel the need to get it out there, to express that vibe musically. It’s really not that much about choosing a style or genre of writing. It’s vital self-expression. The choices of style and details in production, whether musical or lyrical, come later, after the initial intuitive part of songwriting is done. I doubt age has much to do with it. It feels like you’re one of the few bands that doesn’t get a lot of criticism from fans if you’re no longer heavier or anything like that. How often do you end up reading comments on social media or on YouTube to gauge responses? Or do you think most of social media for bands is now a bit toxic?Â. We do receive a great deal of our fans stories and responses on social media. For the most part it’s good, positive feedback and our fans know we don’t get hung up on any particular form of music, because for us music is just music with no boundaries. So we follow our love for it when making new songs, not genre guidelines. And who knows what the next song or album will be like, full on acoustic with violins and noir lyrical content, or gnarly and industrial with dramatically distorted guitars and flying solos, or a bit of both in a nice mix. While social media seems to be the drug of the modern day, it is like anything else with an edge. It can be used to do good and it can be used for other causes, all depending on the person using it. You are on tour right now through Europe and then you have more shows through February next year. What else is coming up? Well, I guess we’ll do the tour first, see where it takes us and then we’ll see what happens next. We are cooking up some new and exciting projects already, of course, but I can’t really divulge anything about those yet. We will certainly keep everyone posted on our website and social media soon as we have something definite. INTERVIEW: POETS OF THE FALL’s Marko Saaresto on ‘Ultraviolet’: “We Wanted The Album To Be A Cohesive Work Of Art” Born and bred in , Finland, alternative rockers Poets Of The Fall burst on to the scene with their instantly well received debut album, ‘Signs Of Life’ in 2005 . Since their illustrious first effort, the band has since gone from strength to strength, instilling a boisterous anticipation surrounding the October, 2018 release of their new album entitled, ‘Ultraviolet’ . Though jump in not head first, for the bands eight studio album may come as a surprise to some. Metal Wani’s Carl O’Rourke had a quick chat with frontman Marko Saaresto on all things POTF and the new record. 1.) Your new record, ‘Ultraviolet’, is at long last almost upon us, and you guys have teased fans with some new material ahead of its release. How has the initial response to your leading release been treating you so far? It’s been treating us very well, thank you. We’ve received tons of feedback from fans around the globe, and it’s been very supportive and also very diverse, as I’m sure we we’re already expecting. We’ve seen myriad different interpretations and emotional responses to the new music, and in all it’s diversity, we are very grateful for it all. It’s always so amazing how music can transcend cultural boundaries and traverse the world, pinching cheeks and picking at nerves, soothing and confusing. We’ve been amazed at some of the stories we’ve heard about how this new music has affected the listeners. It does give more meaning to what we do and we find it all very inspiring. As a musician it’s good to know that we have something to give that touches people. 2.) ‘Ultraviolet’ sometimes sounds like Poets Of The Fall but with a twist. You guys have retained that strong sense of melody you have always excelled at, but you seem to have deviated somewhat from your usual edgy delivery for a more polished sound this time around. Would you agree with this assessment? Sonically, what were you going for when you set out to make this record? When we start writing a new album, producing it, we usually try to start off with a clean slate. Every song is an individual, and we’ve come to understand that it’s important to allow that initial intuition any given song invokes in us, to lead the process, also where sound choices and delivery are concerned. We weren’t necessarily looking for, say an edgy sound to the album, but were rather content to just make the album and see how it turned out. Of course the process is a lengthy one, and there’s room to make changes to the album many times over, if deemed necessary. All in all, Ultraviolet turned out pretty much exactly how we wanted it to turn out. 3.) One of the core components of the band have always been your very honest, at times admirably vulnerable lyrics. ‘Ultraviolet’ is no exception, perhaps most notably in “Fools Paradise”, which is a stunningly good track by the way! Lyrically, what was it that informed your writing on this record? What was it you wanted to say here? Thank you so much. Ultraviolet talks about the unseen world, the things which influence us in our every day lives, but we remain oblivious to. On a metaphorical level that can be thought of as the ultraviolet spectrum of light, which even if not discernible by the naked human eye, can still have an effect on us. Fools Paradise delves into these themes by looking at snapshots of our memories, which become the stories we tell ourselves, which in turn may become patterns which govern our lives, even our identities, which may then become our ‘false ‘kings’, our ‘prisons’, but which can also point to our deliverance, when we look at it all from a different vantage point. 4.) When I listen to ‘Ultraviolet’, as we said, I find there are some trademark Poets Of The Fall elements there, without question. I also feel an intent within it to step away from anything you may have done before. Would it be fair to say that this record begins a new chapter, or ushers in a new era for the band? I think you would be absolutely right in pointing out that Ultraviolet is a deliberate step away from the norms and patterns we’ve maybe held on to before. Even though in the past we have always considered ourselves a cross genre artist, loosely defined as rock. This time we decided to indulge our whims and make each song it’s own contrasting individual on the album. But we still wanted the album to be a cohesive work of art, instead of a work of art of uneasy rapport. The idea behind this was in part the idea that Ultraviolet is also about contrast, which is a dear subject to us. The same is true, when you take it’s previous counterpart, Clearview, into consideration as well. Clearview had a much more of the edgy, rock sound to it. Ultraviolet is throwing it a curve ball, saying:” How do you deal with this, then?” But it’s also done the way it is for the sake of doing something different and keeping the music making fresh and interesting for ourselves. Perhaps it also ushers in a new paradigm for us as musicians, but perhaps that also happens in small uneven steps with each new album we write. I mean, we’re always on the look out for the next new thing we want to experiment with. Ever the alchemists. 5.) Throughout your career you guys have always been quite ambitious with your sound. Whether it’s writing for a record or a game and so on, you’ve never feared reaching further. And, while not all, many artists feel there is an alarming lack of musicians who do this. In fact, some would go as far as to say they feel that many contemporary musicians blatantly imitate as opposed to innovate. With this divide in opinion in mind, what are your thoughts on this? Do you feel there’s no shortage of forward thinking musicians, or is there a state of Retromania happening, where our music culture is dangerously addicted to its own past? In my opinion, the music field is very diverse and vast. I really do feel there’s no shortage of forward thinking musicians, it’s just a matter of are they being heard. While what you’ve just portrayed in the question is probably true to some extent, I see no need for alarm. History is the base we are always building on, in any field, music’s not different in that respect. Without history or the past, could we even gauge what is truly new and what is not? Inevitably phenomenons rise and fall in the musical landscape as well, and whenever something new and exciting comes along, there’s bound to be imitating and imitators to follow, as others may want to join in, or in some cases, cash in on the new trend. This is also how new movements are created, new genres are brought to life. They may live for an undefined amount of time, before something else comes along and the scene changes. I find no dangerous addictions in that, and we use nostalgia as a bittersweet spice. (I hope this answers your question to some extent. I felt that maybe there’s a more specific case you had in mind, that I don’t fully see and therefore couldn’t answer more exhaustively). 6.) We mentioned that the band wrote for a game earlier, and many know you guys for you work on Alan Wake. I’m curious, do you have any plans to write for any more games, movies etc? And is there anything on yours, or the bands, bucket lists that you would love to write music for in the future? We are most certainly always open to new and inviting quests in the field of music. Whether its writing for games or movies or other projects, we do try to conserve a space for those in our schedules when we can. As far as bucket lists go, I think we’d all be very happy writing soundtrack music for a film or two at some point, as we are all also big fans of score music. We’ve also written music for other artists in the past, so that’s probably something we’d like to do more at some point too. 7.) You guys have always managed to be part of that rare breed of bands who manages to cross over between pop, rock and metal fans alike to name but a few. The demographic of your fan base is quite varied. What in your opinion is it about Poets Of The Fall that successfully breaches these borders on either side and unites them all? That’s a very good question. What could be a definite factor there is that for us music is just music, without genres. So we really love all the aforementioned musical styles and more. That puts us in the same seat as the fans who really dig a certain genre, like metal, and then finds that style in our music as well. We could probably spend a lot of good times with these people just listening to music we all like and have a blast. So because that love for music is honestly conveyed through our music, it could be what connects with people. Could also be the lyrics. When you find some part of your own life experience in them, it’s easy to feel connected. Btu of course, I have no definite answer here, as I’m not the one experiencing the music from someone else’s point of view. This is merely a rumination on what I’ve heard from our fans about how they’ve experienced the music. 8.) Finally, with the new record about to drop and a tour to support it, how long will you guys be out supporting ‘Ultraviolet’? And have you any preliminary plans as to what you will do as a band, or separately, once this cycle comes to an end? We’ve talked amongst ourselves about this very topic, while we we’re still in the midst of writing the album. As we’ve kept a pretty hectic pace with touring and releasing new albums, we promised to give ourselves more leeway with future schedules if possible. Call it breaking the cycle, if you will, in accordance with the Ultraviolet’s themes. So it’s possible we stay on tour for quite some time, and get back to writing new music only when the time feels right for that. Of course, we seem to be ticking for new music all the time, but there’s more of a peace to it now, that we donate have to run against the clock all the time. Could be other projects arise and we will go and try our hand at those. Aside from the tour there are no definite plans we can tell of at this point. But we’ll be sure to tell when there’s something to speak about.