NEW MUSiC: Kalle Mattson

There’s something to be said for youthful vigor and vitality, the innocence and spontaneity of music that’s not calculated or skewed to a particular demographic.  I hastened to use the term “naiveté” because that implies a lack of wisdom or judgment, but that was one of the initial reactions I had to listening to Sault Ste. Marie Ontario’s Kalle Mattson the other day.  There most certainly is wisdom and good judgment in the 11 songs on Whisper Bee, there first foray into the musical recording world; but there’s a spontaneous quality to that music that makes it enduring and intriguing.  After all, a band that names one of there songs “Hall of Oats” has to have a sense of humour, and a sense of musical history all at the same time.  That the song is one of the record’s gems is just a bonus.

They are a happy accident where Wilco, Neil Young and Pavement topple head over heels together down a hill, falling into a beautiful mess at the bottom.  Kalle Wainio has been making music from the age of 17 under the name Kalle Mattson, before expanding the band’s number and sound by adding Rory Lewis and Patrick Larkin (who no longer is art of the band), then later Théan Slabbert and Jimmie Chiverelli to create a folk-pop experimental collective that breathes some fresh life into what has become a stale and staid genre of indie music.  What I love most about Whisper Bee, much like Attack In Black’s  Marriage, is that it acts as a signal to what the band could very well become in time.  Their potential is great, but that shouldn’t somehow undermine what they’ve already accomplished.  The more I listen, the more I’m drawn into their sound.  This is definitely worth checking out, friends.

MP3: Kalle Mattson “Hall of Oats”
Myspace: Kalle Mattson

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