InnerSleeve Smell The Roses [VINYL]

On March 28th, 2025 award-winning guitarist and blues artist extraordinaire Erja Lyytinen will release her new studio album "Smell the Roses". The lead single and title track will be released on Wednesday 29th January and will be accompanied by a new music video. Elaborating on the track Erja said: "The message is simple - wake up and Smell the Roses. There's so much beauty in the world, so why don't we stop and enjoy it rather than fighting and wanting more." It's been three years since the release of Erja Lyytinen's last solo studio album, "Waiting for the Daylight". Since then, the High-Flying Finn has continued to tour the globe relentlessly, performing at prestigious events such as the Byron Bay Blues Festival in Australia, headlining HRH Blues at the O2 Academy in Leicester, and making her debut at the legendary Rory Gallagher Festival in Ballyshannon, to name but a few. Throughout her career Erja Lyytinen has appeared on many television shows in her native Finland, but in the latter stages of 2024, the artist was invited to participate in The Masked Singer on Finnish TV. As one would imagine, Erja was sworn to secrecy about her role on the show; even her twin boys were left guessing whether their mum was on the programme. "I got to perform on The Masked Singer in Finland, where I made it through to the finals. It was such a fantastic experience, and I always love doing TV shows. "Smell the Roses", continues to showcase Erja Lyytinen's musical evolution as the artist proceeds to push her creative boundaries with each release that follows. "The album's backing tracks were recorded at Hollywood House Studios in Helsinki. I told my mixing engineer Matias Kiiveri to go for the sound of seventies rock albums. I have been recently listening to mainly vinyl and recordings from the sixties and early seventies," explains Erja. "While mixing the album, we used some analogue gear like a Two-Track Tape Machine to get a fat and warm sound on the album. This sound and the organic way of creating music speaks to me a lot."