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Having gotten together in 1997 to start their own melodic take of power pop and noise are the Rock city Kokkola , Finland-based quartet of Mental Market. Inspired by the likes of Neil Young, Hüsker Dü, Nirvana, and Sugar, the bands array of guitar effects and vocal harmonies can be heard on their 1998 debut EP Insults. Released on Popatak Records, the label eventually followed up with Mental Market's first album, Spooky, two years later. Mental Market,is a weird combination of guitar genius Jukka Melametsä's extravagant and tastefully violent fingerwork and singer Tom Stenman's chillingly lunatic vocals and thoroughly disturbing literate lyrics about madness, drug abuse, sex, violence and death. The band sounds like Material Issue or Mega City Four on amphetamine - yes, it still is power pop, but it's power pop with a noisy, psychedelic, scarily gloomy edge.
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