Double single arrives 7 November 2025
The title track crashes in alongside the B-side “One of Us Will Have To Die” for a chaos-soaked November release.
Sa:rki, broken. Sa:rki, a fish of the bottom-dwelling variety. Sa:rki, here to fill your ears with hardcore nonsense and make you question the insanity of everyday life, such as dealing with airport security and how crustaceans transformed from nutritional punishment to high-class delicacy.
Finland may be the happiest nation on earth, that's why us Finnish lads can afford to be the angriest when it comes to music.
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Sa:rki is the brainchild of 3 lads from Finland who together almost form a functional band. We love breakdowns, downtuned guitars, loud riffs, shouting and fucking around with perfectly good songs.
The first attempt to conquer the world was made at Iisti’s apartment in Vienna a couple hours before Leo’s and Jori’s flight back to Finland. This experiment sparked a fire to prepare the recording session a bit better and plan at least a couple bars (music) before going to a recording studio.
The next song was written and recorded in a dusty bomb shelter somewhere in Helsinki and since then we've tried making music remotely as well as internationally by invading Berlin to work on our first double single. We hope our musical rants and stories resonate with you as we continue to observe the crazy in the world and share it with you.
“Let the Rippendrop / One of Us Will Have To Die” was forged in a haze of late-night brainstorms, squatted venues, and the kind of gallows humour only Sa:rki can weaponise. The sessions started with vocalist and lyricist Jori and producer Leo staring down a blank page — and a rapidly emptying bottle.
“Right, so I was getting shitfaced with my mate Leo when we were struck with a bout of creative constipation…”
— Jori, vocals & lyrics
That hazy conversation spiralled into a story about a possessed beast and the brutal honesty of knowing there’s no clean escape. The result is the B-side “One of Us Will Have To Die”, a track dripping with inevitability and the band’s taste for darkly comic catharsis.
“Leo started talking about this dog — a real beast, completely possessed, tearing smaller creatures apart… It turned into this song about inevitability — that sometimes there’s no clean way out. One of us will have to die.”
— Jori
The title track “Let the Rippendrop” twists the band’s love for metaphor into a sonic puzzle: chaos on the surface, human confessions underneath. Depending on how sober you are when you listen, the song is either therapy in disguise or a dare to face the nonsense head on.
“We like to make songs that sound like chaos but actually hide something more human… Or maybe it’s just our way of coping with daily nonsense. Depends on how sober you are when you listen.”
— Jori
To bottle that feeling, Jori, Leo, and Juho “Iisti” Itä decamped to Berlin — a city where order and mayhem happily coexist. What was meant to be a focused recording mission quickly became a tour of the city’s underground pulse.
“The trip was chaotic and glorious. One night we ended up at an underground rap event in a squatted block called Køpi. It was raw — walls sweating, beats shaking, and people just being completely free.”
— Leo
“Somehow that night bled into the music. Berlin gave us that mix of danger and inspiration — a little madness, a little truth, and a lot of noise.”
— Juho “Iisti” Itä
That Berlin nocturne lives inside both tracks: the inevitability of the fight, the wink behind the darkness, and the sense that freedom is loud, sweaty, and maybe a tiny bit unhinged. That’s the story of this double single — play it loud enough and you can still smell the concrete dust.
The sonic alchemist behind the band’s overall sound — responsible for the synths, programming, and making sure the chaos eventually turns into finished songs. Leo’s past life in the studio includes producing and mixing Snow White’s Poison Bite – The Story of Kristy Killings, whose tracks have been streamed millions of times, and Matthau Mikojan – Mania for Life, which earned a 4-star review in Soundi Magazine. When the band gets lost in ideas, Leo finds the “record” button.
With roots in Great Britain, Jori is the band’s lead vocalist and resident guitar wizard — an energetic force of nature whose lyrics and poetic stream never stop flowing. Master of breakdown math and guardian of every decibel we shouldn’t be using. If it grooves and grinds at the same time, it’s probably his fault.
Vienna-based multi-instrumentalist and sound explorer. A familiar face in the underground, Iisti has played with the Finnish folk group Tradikaali, touring across Finland, Germany, Canada, the USA, South Korea, and Russia — always finding new ways to make tradition sound dangerous.