Originally published in NME 15/05/2010
No prizes for guessing what Villa Nah sound like. They’re a Finnish duo comprised of two boyhood friends with yin and yang music tastes and temperaments. They make Human League-indebted synth-pop about waiting for the first sunbeam to break through the dark shell of winter under which Finland broods. To all intents and purposes, they are the Nordic Hurts, minus the giddily bombastic campness those boys keep us hooked with. Consequently, ‘Origin’ wields no surprises – it’s full of OMD/Giorgio Moroder plunderings with all the cold, dead ingenuity of a particularly irritating polyphonic ringtone. Their attempts at alluring frostiness are tepid at best.
4/10
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