MP3 Vessels - FOLK: Psych-folk

"[Finn's] folk will be haunting you for days with its wounded humanity"-Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover

9 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Psych-folk, BLUES: Folk-Blues



Details:
The Big Takeover #60 Spring 2007

Review by Jack Rabid

Here's another man, acoustic guitar, and naked voice. But Pittsburgh vet Finn has been at this awhile, and he's a special type: he freezes you in apprehension rather than soothes your soul. It's not just that this is the kind of quiet that chills; or that his voice, a near-whisper, comes from deep dark within; or that the occasional spare backing just makes the mood more precarious. It's his lyrics: full of foreboding for his mental health, like "It's a long way down to the bottom of the well." It's a realistic melancholy of loss and long recovery. More than influences like Iron and Wine or Will Oldham, Finn is a new Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters), in his highly similar voice, wounded fragility, and frozen silent beauty. And his brittle folk will be haunting you for days with its wounded humanity.