{"id":17504,"date":"2011-06-28T16:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/?p=17504"},"modified":"2019-04-16T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T22:30:26","slug":"shine-2009-realism-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/2011\/06\/28\/shine-2009-realism-album-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Shine 2009 &#8211; Realism album review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sami Suova and Mikko Pykari make up Shine 2009. Originally from Helsinki, Finland, Shine 2009 released their debut album \u201cRealism\u201d on May, 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2011, by way of Cascine and Expo records.<\/p>\n<p>The electronic duo managed to fit many instruments into these nine easy listening 90&#8217;s pop tracks and despite the norm, these boys don\u2019t mind a six and a half-minute song.<\/p>\n<p>While this style of music was not what I would consider my personal taste, Realism is really bringing me into a new genre. The EP has flavors of pop, electro, hip-hop, jazz, and more all on one album, something that can be appreciated by listeners of different genres and musicians alike.<\/p>\n<p>As a collection, the smooth sounds of Realism are perfect for a high-fashion runway, a restaurant on the lower east side of New York, or even your daily workout and everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGraduation\u201d is a dreamy song with a cool, soft vocal, and a hip-hop influenced track. The song speaks about knowing all the secrets but not giving them away. \u201cSo Free\u201d is a catchy jazzy and danceable feel-good song about being happy and free, perhaps the band had truly found it&#8217;s place in their music. So Free features the backing vocals of Paula Abdul, Paula\u2019s vocals add another soft and airy element to the song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Rules\u201d features a bridge of the chime rhythm often sampled in hip-hop, made popular in the late 80s by the Run-DMC song \u201cPeter Piper\u201d. Coming from somebody who has never really listened to music of this genre, \u201cModern Times\u201d and \u201cNaturally\u201d are also noteworthy songs from the album.<\/p>\n<p>Shine 2009 has produced an overall solid debut EP. The band has already made a few music videos for Realism and has live shows scheduled for the near future. They will be playing in their hometown of Helsinki next month, with a group that has had a good amount of success here in America; Chromeo.<\/p>\n<p><CENTER><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004YWYT84\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=mvremixcom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=B004YWYT84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51aSncWqJBL._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51aSncWqJBL._SS500_.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" title=\"\"><\/noscript><\/a><\/CENTER><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sami Suova and Mikko Pykari make up Shine 2009. Originally from Helsinki, Finland, Shine 2009 released their debut album \u201cRealism\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-videos","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17504"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40531,"href":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17504\/revisions\/40531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvremix.com\/rock_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}