Up and coming rock-act Rylos releases it's much anticipated second album, called Planet, this winter. The album is a follow-up to their debut, Game Theory, which was released last year. A lot has happened over the past year: numerous gigs, changes in line-up, Game Theory´s release in China etc. However probably the biggest event was when young super-talented drummer Misca Muhli, who has been blind all his life, joined the band. Misca is a very good example of what you can achieve when you firmly believe in your dreams and are ready to do some real hard work.

With their forthcoming album Rylos also resurrects singer Mikko Heino's former band Doodah's material: on album you can find 1996 cult classics 'Posthuman Power Station' and 'Into the Gutter'. It has also happened that former Doodah guitarist-composer Mikko Hämäläinen has joined Rylos´ background bunch as a reinforcement. Hämäläinen has made his contribution to Planet album in a form of writing lyrics and making arrangements to new material; for example, on the song 'My Capricious Heart'. Heino and Hämäläinen have also composed material ready for the third Rylos album, which is due to be released at the end of 2018. That particular concept album will be called Solarworks and it tells a story about adventures in time, space and mind.

Rylos´ mascot is (as a homage to Iron Maiden's Eddie) a living carrot named Ned the Carrot, who ventures as a cartoon character in Esa Ahlqvist's comic and also live on stage. Planet is  somewhat heavier and more epic than the debut album but you can still hear the characteristics of that unique Rylos-sound. This album will bring out both deep emotional and also angry aggressive sides of Rylos and that really crystallizes things into gold. 

Listen the album on Spotify 

Stoat's newest single and video ‘Don't Play No Game That I Can Win’ is out now, ahead of their new album, Try Not To Think About It, which is slated for release (finally) on Feb 3. ‘Don't Play No Game That I Can Win’ is probably the poppiest tune on the album, with a disco groove, handclaps and MOAR COWBELL! It even has a dance video.

It's indie pop/-tronica rather than actual “pop”, naturally. There's no guest appearance from Pitbull, and the lyrics are about embracing the futility of striving (though in a fun way) but still, Stoat like to think of it as a song where you dance in the verse and sing along in the chorus, in the vein of Metronomy or Hot Chip.

‘Don't Play No Game That I Can Win’ is the fourth single from the album. The previous three picked up airplay all over Ireland (2FM, WLR, Cork 96FM, 8Radio, FlirtFM, and many more), and had kind things said about them on a variety of music blogs, including here on Musos’ Guide.