Fink - Hard Believer ((CD))

Set to be released on July 14th, Hard Believer is the
eagerly-awaited new studio album from FINK: Fin Greenall (vocals/guitar),
together with Tim Thornton (drums/guitar) and Guy Whittaker (bass). It will be
their first release on the R’COUP’D imprint, a label newly created by Greenall
with the backing of the Ninja Tune team. Recorded in seventeen days at
Hollywood’s legendary Sound Factory studios with producer Billy Bush (Garbage,
Beck, Foster the People), Hard Believer is shot through with rawness and controlled
aggression; an album replete with calm beginnings seguing into powerfully
hypnotic loops and climactic finales. It is a masterful collection of songs
from an artist at the peak of his creative powers. “We wanted to go deeper this
time, and be more ambitious with the music,” Fin explains, “to move the sound
forward without losing touch of where we’re from.” Urban, bluesy, and alive,
the album presents ten brand new songs, including the mighty “Shakespeare”, a
tale of young love gone tragically sour as the mood darkens from acoustic to
guttural rock; the spiky yet delicate “Looking Too Closely”, riding an
irresistible piano-and-guitar groove; “Green And The Blue”, on which a
vulnerable Greenall meditates on the constants in life that see you through tough
times; “Two Days Later”, a deeply personal lament and one of only two songs on
the record that start and remain down-tempo; and the breathtaking “Pilgrim”,
the latest collaboration with songwriter Blair Mackichan, co-writer of “This Is
The Thing” from Fink’s 2007 Distance and Time, and “Honesty” from 2011’s
Perfect Darkness.Since making the transition from world-class club DJ and
electronic producer, to the first ever singer-songwriter signed to legendary
British label Ninja Tune, Greenall has released four critically acclaimed
albums, worked in the studio with the likes of John Legend, Ximena Sariñana,
Amy Winehouse and Professor Green and enjoyed incredible live success with the
hugely popular 18-month “Perfect Darkness” world tour which accumulated two
live records: 2012’s Wheels Turn Beneath My Feet, and 2013’s Fink Meets the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. All this and Fink is still a name which – while
evoking an impassioned response from many a fellow artist and from the avid
fanbase – remains a mystery to a wider majority. This looks set to change...The
term ‘Hard Believer’ comes from deep-south Americana; it means somebody who is
difficult to persuade, who requires proof. In truth, all anyone has to do here
is listen to the powerful collection of songs on Hard Believer. The belief will
surely follow.

• Internal ID: JITRE
• Format Detail: 2CD w/ book pack
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• Genre: Dance & Electronic