New music: Vuk aka Emily Cheeger - The Archaeologist

Back in January 2010 when we kick-started this blog in a little kitchen in Clapton, east London one of the first posts absolutely had to be about Vuk. Read about it here... and then move your ears onto a brand new track!

A studio demo from the Finnish-American solo artist, called The Archaeologist, has reached our inbox... taken from the album that has a working titles of Year of the Gourd (how very Game of Thrones, we love it!). It's all written, arranged, played and sung by Vuk aka Emily Cheeger.

Vuk is also currently looking for any interested labels to release her record, and if this track is anything to go by it's going to be amazing. Last year's The Plains was one of our albums of the year.

   

New music tip for 2010 1: Vuk

Vuk is a Finnish-American force of nature, who says "the pump organ is a very underrated instrument". But of course! Her second album Plains is out now and I missed her perform at Barden's Boudoir a few months ago. Darn it. 


Vuk, is mainly the lady in the picture with the fox on her head. Ah-hem. She writes everything and plays what you hear on her albums, but live she enlists friends Loupine and Janne Lastumäki to form a trio. 


Vuk are genre-busting, if there was an impromptu rap on one of the tracks I'd say that would pretty much do it. What album is complete without an impromptu rap? Now that's a whole other topic for another time. Dark, mysterious, funny and completely melodramatic - TOW loves Vuk.