JOENSUU1685 has been playing together since early 2007. The band includes Mikko (vocals, guitar and farfisa), Markus (drums) and Risto Joensuu (bass), Mikko and Markus are brothers and Risto happens to have the same surname. The band released their first album in September 2008 and it has been really critically acclaimed in Finnish media (and also abroad). Finnish music magazine Rumba praised it as "the best domestic debut by far year 2008", other finnish music magazine Soundi acclaimed that Joensuu 1685 is "new and ambitious indie-rock".

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