Count Jaakola – Boy Bingo

Count Jaakola - Kind Eyes

From one Finugrian female singer to another. Tiia Jaakola, the woman behind Count Jaakola, is Finnish but lives in London where among other things she is a touring member of Allo Darlin’. That’s great for her and for them, but musically Count Jaakola doesn’t share a lot with Allo Darlin’. It sounds more generic female-fronted indie, with quite a bit of variation between the songs. Boy Bingo (“It doesn’t matter if you’re Tom, Ben, Trevor or whatever”) sounds like of a less dance-y Saint Etienne and is my favourite song from her debut album, Kind Eyes.

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