Revisit of the Week: Lodger - Low Blue Flame (2014)

The Finnish rock band Lodger had a pretty good start, all things considered. Their debut single "Footsteps" was marketed with a quaint Flash animation featuring a one-eyed stick guy having a rough day; a very basic video by modern standards, but a surprising and unexpected choice for the video for an actual band and it rather randomly took off. The "Footsteps" video ended up winning first place in the national music video award/competition and the band's debut Hi-Fi High Lights Down Low (2005) was released to positive reviews, even if every single one of them described the group as "the band with the video". The momentum didn't last. 2007's follow-up album How Vulgar suffered from being too faithful for the first album: same sound, same black and white aesthetic, similar Flash video for its lead single "I Love Death". Lodger were pegged down as one-trick ponies and the album was released to cricket sounds. The flipside of this is that the album's failure perhaps inspired Lodger to…