Fink - Perfect Darkness - [Vinyl]

ReviewFink is the showbiz pseudonym of singer songwriter Fin Greenall. Since 2000 he�s been operating as Ninja Tune�s one guitar-wielding troubadour in their catalogue, and has gone on to work with Nitin Sawhney, Lamb and Zero 7. And that�s not all: he had that John Legend fellow guest on his last album, has co-written material beside Amy Winehouse and Bonobo (among others), and most recently popped up on Professor Green�s Alive Till I�m Dead; he�s also helping out on the rapper�s next album. He also manages to squeeze in a spot of DJing as Sideshow, with several releases under that name as well. Phew.On this his fourth album as Fink, Greenall is still operating in a mellow, chilled-out area with the air of an early-hours beach-bum wayfarer. But before you smash the glass marked �Jack Johnson for the camping-at-The-Big-Chill-in-a-yurt set� alarm, know that Fink adds a bit of balls and soul to the recipe. Here, one can hear delicate echoes of Nick Drake as well as - if you squint a bit - traces of Sade and Finley Quaye.The standout track is Yesterday Was Hard on All of Us, one of those songs which could take on a life of its own. In fact, the entire album has a timely quality to it, filled with tunes that carefully burrow into your head: the intensely bluesin� Wheels winds on muscularly, and the moody Who Says has echoes of Radiohead at their most pleasingly noodlesome. The sinewy title-track winds along with dashes of Bill Withers warmth and phrasing. But louder cut Fear Is Like Fire shows this set isn�t fully comfortable in a world just marked �acoustic�, and closer Berlin Sunrise is also something of a treat.Perfect Darkness is rather special. A writhing, surprisingly meaty addition to the over-crowded singer-songwriter genre, it has enough individuality as not to get brushed aside with the prefix �just another�. If it takes Fink five years to follow this up, that should be plenty of time for this to slow burn itself into a bit of a classic.--Ian WadeFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new windowProduct Description'Perfect Darkness' follows three critically-acclaimed albums from the singer-songwriter, whose production and songwriting credits include some of the world's biggest names - John Legend, Amy Winehouse and Professor Green.

Fink - Perfect Darkness - [Vinyl]

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