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Fink Perfect Darkness (CD) Album
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Perfect Darkness
- EAN
- 5021392657127
- Edition
- Album
- Style
- Singer/Songwriter
- Release Date
- 13/06/2011
- No Of Discs
- 1
- MPN
- ZENCD170
- UPC
- 5021392657127
- Artist
- Fink (British)
- Format
- CD
- Record Label
- Ninja Tune (USA)
- Producer
- Billy Bush
- Release Year
- 2011
- Release Title
- Perfect Darkness
- Genre
- Electronic
- Run Time
- 64 Mins 54 Seconds
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Producer
Billy Bush
Record Label
Ninja Tune (USA)
UPC
5021392657127
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19050140064
Product Key Features
Artist
Fink (British)
Format
CD
Release Year
2011
Release Title
Perfect Darkness
Genre
Electronic
Run Time
64 Mins 54 Seconds
Additional Product Features
Distribution
Redeye Music Distribution
Number of Discs
2
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
Additional information
Personnel: Fin Greenall (vocals, acoustic guitar); Tim Thornton (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drums); Guy Whittaker (acoustic bass, electric bass). Audio Mixer: Billy Bush. Recording information: 7Dials, Brighton, UK (11/22/2010-12/09/2010); Steakhouse Studio, North Hollywood, CA (11/22/2010-12/09/2010). Photographers: Natalie Guicking; Marino Thorlacius. On Perfect Darkness, Fink sticks to the excellent template he developed around 2006, and in its best moments, the record offers sounds on par with anything off his previous two records: the same taut folky guitar, the same delicate grooves, and the same quiet, reserved vocals all rolled into one laconic, low-key package. It's not really as dark as he says, but instead, it's perfect introspection music, sort of like Early Day Miners covering Recoil's bluesy electronica gem, or SubHuman, only using even fewer notes than usual, with two or three sparse textures at most, other than the vocals. Therein lies the problem, though, as deeper into the album, Fink tries to take brevity to new heights and limits the instrumentation to his guitar and nothing else. But while his guitar lines on tunes like "Honesty" are as moody and to the point as ever, they come dangerously close to plodding without something else to underscore them. He eventually gets to build up the tension, producing, in fact, with more noise than before; see, for example, the final part of "Warm Shadow" or the sporadic gospel choirs and electric guitars on other tunes. But it still feels like Fink tries to express solitude head-on -- if you sit and brood alone, there's got to be only one instrument on the song -- and it doesn't really work that way. Some of the lyrics also toe the line between profound and contrived: -- "Fear is like fire/You can warm your hands on it/Fear is like fire/You can burn your house down with it" is a good example. But still, even in its low moments, when Perfect Darkness recedes into the background, it doesn't lose the beautiful, pensive vibe that is the best thing about Fink, and tracks like the opener or "Foot in the Door" deliver the groovy melancholy like few others can. ~ Alexey Eremenko
Reviews
Paste (magazine) - "British singer-songwriter Fin Greenall, under the name Fink, has crafted a mellow acoustic-driven album of mostly traditional, mostly dark songs in PERFECT DARKNESS." Record Collector (magazine) (p.92) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Greenall's voice veers between soft-treading Nick Drake rumination to escalating intensity, recalling the damaged demons of Tim Hardin on 'Wheels'' bluesy shuffle."
Engineer
Billy Bush
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
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