Fin Greenall, known professionally as Fink, is an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and disc jockey born in Cornwall and currently based in Berlin and London. From 1997 to 2003, he focused on electronic music and DJ'd internationally, releasing in 2000 his debut album Fresh Produce on Ninja Tune. Since the 2006 release of his album Biscuits for Breakfast, the name Fink has also referred to the recording and touring trio fronted by Greenall himself, completed by Guy Whittaker (bass) and Tim Thornton (drums).
Most recently, he has written in collaboration with John Legend, Banks, Ximena Sarinana and Professor Green. With Amy Winehouse, he co-wrote the song "Half Time", which appears on Winehouse's posthumous collection Lioness: Hidden Treasures. In 2012, Fink collaborated and performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, resulting in the live album Fink Meets The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Fink is signed to his own label, R'COUP'D Records, a subsidiary of Ninja Tune, on which he has released his latest albums.
albums by Fink
Songs by Fink
Good thing there's no ego in your comment.
Apparently you don't know your Fink from your Elbow.
Suppose, if I listened to it too much I might find the lyrics excruciating, but for now I don't give a rat's ass about the lyrics, because I really dig the tones and harmonies.
Well said !
Suppose, if I listened to it too much I might find the lyrics excruciating, but for now I don't give a rat's ass about the lyrics, because I really dig the tones and harmonies.
One of the best opening lines on a text ever!
"I bet you think this song is about you"
Invest 30-45 Euros in a good pair of wireless headphones and listen to RP's higher quality music streams. You'll hear the difference immediately.
(Expanding on Proclivities' point, and I'm pretty sure he knows this): You get that squeak on an unamplified acoustic guitar to which a microphone has been closely placed, a common practice. It happens when the fingers of the fret hand move quickly from one position to the next and drag across the ribs of the roundwound strings. It's true flatwound strings would reduce the squeaks (as another poster suggested) but they're rarely used on acoustic guitars (they're less bright tonally).
Some guitars have higher "action", a larger distance between the strings and frets, which requires increased finger pressure and leads to more and louder squeaking as do heavier gauge (thicker) strings. ...
Also, the squeak is much more pronounced when one slides movable chords (or triads) up and down the neck as opposed to changing open chord shapes from one hand position on the neck - in this recording he is doing much of the former.
"Blackbird" by The Beatles has audible string squeaking because McCartney was sliding chord shapes up and down the neck of the guitar. Most well-known acoustic guitar songs of the rock and folk genres are played with open chords within 0 to 4 frets of the headstock, and there is little movement up and down the neck, so the squeaking is not as pronounced - if at all present. Anyone who plays acoustic guitar should know that.
According to my comment a mere four days ago, you can play this as much as you want, Bill!