ARTiST: Fink
TiTLE: Distance And Time
LABEL: Ninja Tune
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 37:01 min
SiZE: 44,2 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Sep-15-2007
RELEASE DATE: Oct-01-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Trouble's What You're In 04:27
02. This Is The Thing 04:32
03. If Only 04:22
04. Blueberry Pancakes 04:22
05. Get Your Share 03:18
06. Under The Same Stars 04:10
07. So Many Roads 04:03
08. Make It Good 03:37
09. Little Blue Mailbox 04:10
Release Notes:
If "Biscuits for Breakfast", Fink's debut album for
Ninja Tune, traded, at least in part, on a seismic
musical shift for both artist and label, then
"Distance and Time" raises the game for both
parties. This latest album is the result of a
frenetic live schedule over the past year - Fink,
together with bassist Guy Whittaker and drummer Tim
Thornton, having played dozens of festivals, over a
hundred shows, and even a Zero 7 support tour.
On this record Fink handed over production to Lamb's
Andy Barlow, and the resultant album is noticeably
bigger, and more sophisticated, than its
predecessor. Boldly, "Distance and Time" starts not
with a bang, but the whispered introduction of
"Trouble's What You're In", so slight that you fear
for its own safety.
"There are no samples, and we've kept the electronic
trickery to a minimum on this record", explains
Fink. "I think that the songs have enough gravitas
and emotional punch to get through without all of
that, and I was very conscious of not being a
touchy-feely photocopy of someone from the seventies
or whatever. Our experience on the road has been
that most Fink fans aren't the same people who are
into James Morrison or Paulo Nutini. Maybe that's a
Ninja Tune thing, or it's in the songs - but it
seems I'm the guitar-based artist you're allowed to
like if you don't like most of the other stuff out
there..."
"This is the Thing", the second track on the album
and lead single, continues the build. The lyrics,
dying embers of a failing relationship, are
resilient but brittle, delivered with matter-of-fact
honesty: "àthe things that keep us apart, keep me
alive." Following on from the stripped-back and
painfully regretful "If Only", "Blueberry Pancakes"
ups the pace - the rhythm section hammering out the
cut, as Fink's guitar has no choice but to go
electric. "I'm not an angry bloke", Fink explains,
"but if I do get angry, I internalise it and I think
you can feel that tension in the album. There's a
line on the song æGet Your Share' which sounds
almost jovial, but in my head I feel so angry, it's
a little aside that means a lot to me, and would
certainly mean a lot to the other person. There is
something about a love song which everyone on the
planet can relate to, whether they're in love or out
of love, hating love or loving love."
"Under the Same Stars" and "So Many Roads" both
signify greater ambition in Fink's sound and
writing, their meteoric arrangements reminiscent of
the best records of the new acoustic movement. On
"Make It Good" the paper-thin beats and almost a
cappella introduction reflect the fragile sentiment
of the song itself - optimistically hoping to put a
broken relationship æback together, piece by piece.'
The closing minutes of the album are perhaps most
telling of Fink's time on the road, the epic "Little
Blue Mailbox" having strayed as far from the DJ
booth as can be...