Hevoset is a collaboration between two Tampere heavyweights: Uton and Jan Anderzén. These two artists have very different styles and approaches, but they manage to weld them together into a mystical organic romp. This tape runs about 40 minutes, and there is not any moment during which that the onslaught lets up. It's like Anderzén and Uton managed to physically inhabit the other's brain. These songs are often chaotic, but there's an underlying sense of something more straightforward that keeps it together. Anderzén has always had pop sensibilities running through his Kemialliset Ystävät albums, but he keeps it obscured enough that you can never quite pin it down.

I find it difficult to discern which parts of the music are contributed by which member. But really, it's not important. Groaning vocals and rhythmic chants overlay noise soup. This is the music of people removed from civilization. It's like this is some kind of ancient artifact. It grinds on your skull, but feels so right. Plucked acoustic guitars and whimsical wind instruments weave in and out of each other's paths, never colliding but getting close enough that they disrupt each other. It's dizzying and fantastic.

It's difficult to separate the tracks here, but each song is unimportant. It's the whole mess that will bring you to your knees. There are moments when the things that make Kemialliset Ystävät and Uton great on their own come together in forested harmony. In particular, on side A when Anderzén is droning away on a keyboard and Uton is massaging your spinal cord with masochistic feedback scrawl - it's hypnotic. These two artists are in a trance here, channelling the sounds in their head. It's so fucking good.

Some tracks are more melodic, some are more disjointed, but as a whole it is masterful. Each crackle, each chime, each wail, and each skronk is perfectly placed. This is definitely a case where the sum is greater than the parts. Anderzén and Uton are in top form here and fans of either solo project will chew this up and consume it for months. People can argue over what kind of aura Tampere has, but Hevoset provides some of the best evidence that the city is steeped in organic glory. - Brad Rose / Foxy Digitalis