There is nothing more frustrating than when a new album is available for your favorite artist in a foreign country but can’t be bought yet in your home country for several months. On January 1, 2014, The New Mystique, the fourth album from Finnish soul Sony Music star, Tuomo, dropped overseas, but has yet to make itself available Stateside. In the meantime, Tuomo’s lead single from last fall, “Keep Looking Up” and his collaboration with TIP on “XTRM” will have to tide us over until we can get our grubby little hands on it. For those who aren’t hip to Tuomo’s magic, check out Reaches Out For You and My Thing for some of the best of Scandinavian Soul in the last several years. Until then, catch these hot neo-soul and electrofunk excursions available on YouTube.
By L. Michael Gipson
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