Viola is FREE

From now on everything we do will be free.
Everything we've made in the past is free as well.

Starting April 1st 2009, we'll be releasing 1 song each and every month on this site. At midnight on the 1st of the month. They'll all be in digital format only and completely free.

Please use the player on the right side of the page to stream our old stuff, or explore the albums to download either .zip-packages of entire albums or individual songs (click "Show tracks" from a given album).

That's it. We hope fans of physical records are not too disappointed. Those things just weren't making any more sense.

This way all the walls between us and you are down. No more waiting around. No more "promo period" or having to deal with distribution. Straight from our hearts to yours.

September 2010: Puppies In The Rain

There goes yet another warm summer and it's time to cuddle up under a warm blanket to make sure you stay warm through the cold dark winter.

But make sure you don't forget our little furry friends, puppies!

Download song: Puppies In The Rain (mp3, 320kbps)
Puppies In The Rain (mp3, 128kbps)
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August 2010: Traitor On The Inside

Hey everybody!

August seems to be Finnish Indie Appreciation month here at Viola Music Club. Last year we did a cover of Tv-resistori and this year we're having a go at the brilliant Traitor On The Inside by Red Carpet.

Download song: Traitor On The Inside (mp3, 320kbps)
Traitor On The Inside (mp3, 128kbps)
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Red Carpet - Sad Eyed Disco Dancers

Red Carpet was by far one of the most amazing bands ever from the Finnish indie pop scene. We were fortunate enough to have them cover us on their farewell ep 'The Band They Coulnd't Hang' in 2007.

Here's their cover of our track Sad Eyed Disco Dancers, from our Melancholydisco album.

Check out more Red Carpet from their MySpace page or from Last.fm (although you should know that there are several other Red Carpets as well).

Download song: Sad Eyed Disco Dancers (mp3, 320kbps)
Sad Eyed Disco Dancers (mp3, 128kbps)
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July 2010: Neon Lightning

Hey everybody! Greetings from USA (Tommi) and Lieksa (Riku)!

We're still feeling summery here at Viola Music Club this month, so we bring you a simple story of carefree disco dancing underneath neon lightning and disco thunder! Enjoy!

Download song: Neon Lightning (mp3, 320kbps)
Neon Lightning (mp3, 128kbps)
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June 2010: Popsicle Summer

SUMMERTIME!!!

Hey everyone! Those nine long ones are behind us again and we're ready to do our best to grab a hold of yet another fleeting summer!

To help y'all grab yours, here's our musical tribute to one of the coolest - literally - inventions ever: the popsicle!

Download song: Popsicle Summer (mp3, 320kbps)
Popsicle Summer (mp3, 128kbps)
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May 2010: Leave It All Again (feat. Bääbs)

Boo-ya!

What combines Kate Bush, Faith No More's Evidence, Phil Collins, Jan Hammer, 2. Maanantai and contemporary R n' B music?

Our new track, that's what.

Download song: Leave It All Again (feat. Bääbs) (mp3, 320kbps)
Leave It All Again (feat. Bääbs) (mp3, 128kbps)
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Poll results are IN!

This just in: The people have spoken!

Here's the OFFICIAL results for the first Viola Music Club year poll:

  1. October 2009: Beautiful Lost Things 43%
  2. May 2009: Nobodylovers 41%
  3. September 2009: Sea Curtain 30%
  4. January 2010: 2010s (Maybe The World Won't End) 24%
  5. July 2009: Shimmery Summery (Sha-La-La-Love) 24%
  6. November 2009: No Connection 21%
  7. February 2010: Heart Breaks Into A Song 19%
  8. August 2009: Oh How You Dance 13%
  9. March 2010: Fade To White 11%
  10. April 2009: Cute Destroyer 6%
  11. June 2009: A Decade 5%
  12. December 2009: This Year It Will Be Different 2%

Thanks to everyone for letting us know what you preferred! We promise not to let that stop us from doing weird and potentially catastrophic experiments in the future either!

April 2010: Chaos Shall Reign!

HAIL, BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN METAL! FROM THE GRIM AND FROSTBITTEN DARKNESS OF VINNLAND I GREET THEE!

You may notice some changes here. You witnesses at the new birth of Viola, mark II.

Dedicated to all teenage satan worshippers, past and present.

Download song: Chaos Shall Reign (mp3, 320kbps)
Chaos Shall Reign (mp3, 128kbps)
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March 2010: Fade To White

Winter 2010 has been a pretty thorough one in Finland. Especially snow has been quite plentiful and has caused quite a bit of chaos in people's everyday lives, so we decided it deserved a song dedication from us, so we give you a piece of orchestral goodness: Fade To White.

Download song: Fade To White (mp3, 320kbps)
Fade To White (mp3, 128kbps)
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February 2010: Heart Breaks Into A Song

This month in Viola Music Club: were a-rockin'!

That's right! It's full-on 110% full steam ahead MIDI rock n' roll from the Viola camp this time.

This month's top achievement: fitting words like "ventriloquist" and "cardiologist" into a carefree indierock lyric.

Download song: Heart Breaks Into A Song (mp3, 320kbps)
Heart Breaks Into A Song (mp3, 128kbps)
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January 2010: 2010s (Maybe The World Won't End)

Welcome to a new year of Viola Music Club, y'all!

To acknowledge the huge fact that we're transferring over to a whole new decade (and to put in our 2 cents into the debate whether it's "the two thousand tens" or "the twenty tens"), here's our highly topical and current track about... the new decade, the 2010s!

Download song: 2010s (Maybe The World Won't End) (mp3, 320kbps)
2010s (Maybe The World Won't End) (mp3, 128kbps)
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Bääbs - You Don't Know Tomorrow music video!

Sami Sänpäkkilä just finished his amazing job at making a cool music video for the song we wrote and produced for Bääbs for the Eurovision Song Contest! What can I say? WOW!

December 2009: This Year It Will Be Different

Season's Greetings to all you Music Clubbers!

As December is stalking upon us, it's time to get merry! Thus we present to you a sequel of sorts to our 2004 Christmas 7": This Year It Will Be Different!

Download song: This Year It Will Be Different (mp3, 320kbps)
This Year It Will Be Different (mp3, 128kbps)
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November 2009: No Connection

Hi everybody!

To conclude our autumnal triptych of holy melancholy, we present to you a track by the name of No Connection, which might lyrically be one of the darkest Viola tracks yet, so it's fitting we're releasing it on All Hallows' Eve.

Download song: No Connection (mp3, 320kbps)
No Connection (mp3, 128kbps)
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October 2009: Beautiful Lost Things

Dear friends,

As promised, we're continuing along the fall-time in melancholic tunes. Not as deeply wrapped in seas of sound as last month, but in distinctly autumnal tones.

Download song: Beautiful Lost Things (mp3, 320kbps)
Beautiful Lost Things (mp3, 128kbps)
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September 2009: Sea Curtain

Greetings, good people, followers of Viola Music Club!

Sadly, we had to kiss the shimmery summer of 2009 goodbye yesterday as we're now stepping into September and as always, it brings autumn along with it.

So obviously this means it's time to quiet down here at the club as well. It's been a particularly sweaty summer this year as far as our music goes, so it's definitely about time to cool down a bit with some far more mellow sounds.

Download song: Sea Curtain (mp3, 320kbps)
Sea Curtain (mp3, 128kbps)
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Viola playlist by Arttu Tolonen (Giant Robot, Black Audio etc.)

We've asked some of our friends to provide us with Viola-playlists that they feel best represent our catalogue to help you nice people get started with checking out all the stuff we've done on the past.

First up, Arttu Tolonen. of Giant Robot, Black Audio and all other bands / artists (like Viola) that need his unparallelled skills on all kinds of redneck instruments.

Read the tracklist with Arttu's comments on all the tracks!

August 2009: Oh How You Dance

Hi friends!

We've already reached the fifth track of this music club endeavour and this time we've done something we rarely do: recorded a cover song!

So here it is, fully Violated and translated to English: TV-Resistori's ever-so-wonderful 'Näen tanssivan sun uudestaan'!

Download song: Oh How You Dance (mp3, 320kbps)
Oh How You Dance (mp3, 128kbps)
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Entire discography as a torrent file

Hi friends!

You can now also grab our entire discography as a torrent file from Laillisettorrentit.net
(That's "legal torrents dot net" in English, we wouldn't want to associate ourselves with any shady stuff now would we?)

UPDATE!
There's another option too. This one doesn't have everything zipped into one package, but has all the tracks separately, if you only wish to download a certain album or track.

Special treat: Ultramariini - Ikuisesti (Viola remix)

Hi Friends!

Here's a little extra summertime treat for you nice people out there! In the end of 2005 we created a remix for our good friends Ultramariini for their third album Kauempana kuin kuu.

Download song: Ikuisesti (Viola remix) (mp3, 320kbps)
Ikuisesti (Viola remix) (mp3, 128kbps)
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July 2009: Shimmery Summery (Sha-La-La Love)

SUMMERTIME Y'ALL!!!

Even Finland has gotten a taste of real summer this year for a change, so obviously this calls for celebration and what better way to celebrate than with Viola's first official summer hit!

(Please also vote for S S (S-L-L L) in the Radio Helsinki summer hit 2009 finals!)

Download song: Shimmery Summery (Sha-La-La Love) (mp3, 320kbps)
Shimmery Summery (Sha-La-La Love) (mp3, 128kbps)
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June 2009: A Decade

This month we've got something very special for you good people: a musical and lyrical retrospective on the first 10 years of Viola!

Download song: A Decade (mp3, 320kbps)
A Decade (mp3, 128kbps)
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May 2009: Nobodylovers

Track #2: Nobodylovers. Features the R. Kelly of Meilahti, R. Kärkkäinen on his rap debut. Not the most typical Viola-track again, but we really do like this one.

Download song: May 2009: Nobodylovers (mp3, 320kbps)
May 2009: Nobodylovers (mp3, 128kbps)
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April 2009: Cute Destroyer

Ok, here we go. Our first free track for this website project...

Download song: Cute Destroyer (mp3, 320kbps)
Cute Destroyer (mp3, 128kbps)
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Old stuff

You can access every single track we've released on physical records from the list on the right hand side of this page and use the player to stream them.

But if you just want to grab some mp3's, here's a few good links...

Listen and download all of Viola's music and get new music every month - for free, no registrations needed!
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