Jaakko Eino Kalevi and Faux Real

Combining folk, funk, and psych-rock into trippy experimental pop, multi-instrumentalist Jaakko Eino Kalevi weaves his own breed of weird, textural synth pop. Taking a slightly different approach with each release, he moved from the introspective dream pop of 2018's Out of Touch to more demented funk on the 2019 mini-album Dissolution and elemental darkwave on 2023's Chaos Magic. Kalevi grew up in Jyväskylä, a city in central Finland. He began making music as a boy after discovering Dream Theater's prog-metal and hip-hop, teaching himself how to play guitar and use beat-maki...