Consternation! Uproar! cover

Music / 2004

Consternation! Uproar!

The third album. The band’s best-reviewed record. Released in Japan two years later.

Released
23 April 2004
Type
Album
Label
Rubato Music · Super-Sonic (Japan, 2006)
Formats
CD · Digital

Tracks

  1. Don't Hold Your Breath
  2. Million to One
  3. Always Changing
  4. Right This Minute
  5. No-one There to Entertain You
  6. Another Stupid Way to Die
  7. Things Turned on Reverse
  8. Wanna Fight?
  9. Not Funny Anymore
  10. A Million Typing Monkeys
  11. One Hour to Change My Life

Produced by Nick Triani. Recorded at Karillo Studio in Porvoo, a summer-cottage studio with a Harrison desk, 2–14 June 2003; mixed at Petrax, Hollola, in November; mastered by Björn Engelmann at Cutting Room, Sweden, in December 2003. The cover: a computer drawing of a shopping basket. With pieces of the band’s two-by-five-metre stage backdrop.

The video for ‘Don’t Hold Your Breath’ went into MTV rotation. Reached #18 on MTV Nordic’s Up North chart. Super-Sonic released the album in Japan on 10 May 2006. The band flew to Tokyo to play it.

Mummypowder are absolutely one of the best English-singing pop bands in Finland.

Matti Markkola, Nöjesguiden 4/04 ★★★★★ (out of 6)

To put it straight, the opening track is the best Finnish song of the year, a perfectly, catchily flowing piece of art.

Samu Valleala, Rockmusica.net 6/04

More reviews in the archive.

Credits

Janne Lehtinen – vocals, guitar. Heikki Tikka – drums. Aleksi Mänttäri – bass. Johan Turbanov – lead guitar. Guests: Ninni Poijärvi (violin), Lotta Poijärvi (viola), Riikka Lampinen (cello), Hannu Salminen (trombone), Riitta Supperi (backing vocals on Wanna Fight?), Rocky the dog and Nick Triani (voice on Things Turned on Reverse).

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