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Trusties started as a song writing collaboration between Matti Ylilauri (vocals) and Marko "Oikku" Oikarinen (guitar). Getting Ville Veijalainen (bass) on board allowed the trio to begin exploring less common rhythmic and harmonic territory as documented on their 1997 all acoustic debut CD 'Growing Smaller'. The band played gigs all around Finland as a three-piece acoustic band. During the writing of the follow-up album it became clear that some of the new songs would definitely need drums. The band made the decision to not try to force the songs into the acoustic trio format. The arrangements were done using instruments...