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jackhammer · 05-09-2011, 05:44 PM

FINK

Singer songwriters are a an acquired taste. Far too many bland broken hearted troubadours or far too many preachers out there. Far too many sad, lonely figures plinking away lamenting past failures who induce nausea instead of a sad sort of pity but what about the guy who sits there and says 'fuck it'?

I am a little older and wiser, made some mistakes, rued some missed opportunities but that's life. This is the sort of person I want to listen to. Tender enough to appeal to your melancholic need but not so wrapped up in spouting bleeding heart sentiment to make you vomit.

Fink has loved and lost, got drunk and messed up, said things he shouldn't have but rarely has seemed to regret any of it. It's life. It's growing older and all that comes with it.

The past is set. You can't change it. The present? Well I am trying to figure that out. The future? I have no control so why worry about it.

I don't want an artist to become a national favourite because he has a certain world view of the future and neither do I want an artist to constantly spout 'What if?'

Fink started out as a DJ/Trip Hop Artist in Bristol U.K (where else?) and began to write his own material for the Ninja Tune label (one of the U.K's rare independent success's in the last few years). He ended up going to Ninja Tune declaring that he had found a new artist and asked them to listen knowing that HE was the artist but worried that they would dissuade him from his DJ path so he recorded this in secret.

Ninja Tune were interested so he had to confess but such was the strength of his material that they forgave him.

Fink has become a 3 piece with the bass player and drummer playing an integral part of a sound that is at it's core one man and his guitar but incorporates a little Jazz and Blues along the way but that is really inconsequential in the grand scheme of Fink.

He is the archetypal man with a guitar sat on a stool but he is far better than that. Not technically or even emotionally. He is 100% himself. No need to create a hook to make lots of money and no need to create a perfect lyric to ingratiate himself into the mainstream.

His lyrics blow that apart. Referring to pubs frequented, beer drank, bar manager names and he is no better than me or no worse than me. He is an artist who just tells it like it is. Warts and all.

05-09-2011, 05:44 PM	#77 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	FINK Singer songwriters are a an acquired taste. Far too many bland broken hearted troubadours or far too many preachers out there. Far too many sad, lonely figures plinking away lamenting past failures who induce nausea instead of a sad sort of pity but what about the guy who sits there and says 'fuck it'? I am a little older and wiser, made some mistakes, rued some missed opportunities but that's life. This is the sort of person I want to listen to. Tender enough to appeal to your melancholic need but not so wrapped up in spouting bleeding heart sentiment to make you vomit. Fink has loved and lost, got drunk and messed up, said things he shouldn't have but rarely has seemed to regret any of it. It's life. It's growing older and all that comes with it. The past is set. You can't change it. The present? Well I am trying to figure that out. The future? I have no control so why worry about it. I don't want an artist to become a national favourite because he has a certain world view of the future and neither do I want an artist to constantly spout 'What if?' Fink started out as a DJ/Trip Hop Artist in Bristol U.K (where else?) and began to write his own material for the Ninja Tune label (one of the U.K's rare independent success's in the last few years). He ended up going to Ninja Tune declaring that he had found a new artist and asked them to listen knowing that HE was the artist but worried that they would dissuade him from his DJ path so he recorded this in secret. Ninja Tune were interested so he had to confess but such was the strength of his material that they forgave him. Fink has become a 3 piece with the bass player and drummer playing an integral part of a sound that is at it's core one man and his guitar but incorporates a little Jazz and Blues along the way but that is really inconsequential in the grand scheme of Fink. He is the archetypal man with a guitar sat on a stool but he is far better than that. Not technically or even emotionally. He is 100% himself. No need to create a hook to make lots of money and no need to create a perfect lyric to ingratiate himself into the mainstream. His lyrics blow that apart. Referring to pubs frequented, beer drank, bar manager names and he is no better than me or no worse than me. He is an artist who just tells it like it is. Warts and all. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”