And here we have it, folks. Fin recording number 4. You’ve Seen him with Bank Details, Dunce, Dinnerbone and now his solo ventures. If this is your first time meeting Fin, you’re in for a treat. A master of the guitar in many senses - a brilliant midwest emo guitarist in his own right, what I first knew him for, but his ambient work, picking, shoegaze playing, he can do it all. I met Fin pretty early on at the Conservatoire, another Trinkets alumni - who wasn’t in that band? On top of all this, what a lovely bloke, quiet and polite, but funny as fuck, as they say.

Fin welcomed me up into his room in the Bank Details house, or maybe it’s now ‘The Fool’ household. The most spacious room I've seen in that house, right on the roof, but still plenty of headroom - important for the lofty guitarist. A delightful view of the field of sheep just behind their house, on such a lovely day too. Despite it just being me and him, I think we stuffed the most amount of instruments I've done so far (I could be wrong. Fact checkers, fact check!). No drums first this time, despite them featuring. We started with the picked guitar.

As I film the walls, full of previous and current bands of the Leeds scene, Fin punches in this mid-focused dark picking that roots the song maybe more in folk, but the next three layers would lean the track back towards ambient. The rumbling bass (he was the Bank Details bassist after all). A bit of a tricky one, I think he was playing it a little off the cuff, but for such a complex bassline, I'd say he did a spiffing job. The slide guitar on his fretless Ibanez Fin got from a fretless collector offloading his collection (maybe he went microtonal, hmmm). This sounds next level, haunting even. All the dives you hear on this, all the swells. Then the pedals to shoot us into outer space. Fin is known (Maybe worldwide) for his pedals, you could just go see a gig with Fin playing with his pedals and it would be well worth the money.

Now something you’ve not heard on any of the Contact Buzz tracks he’s featured on so far - his voice! A telephone mic feature once again, a really dry signal, which made sense with all the wet sounds we’d added so far. Whispered, under his breath, so numb but comforting, I want to hear more from Fin’s mouth. So melancholic too, very answering machine. Then, because why not, we chuck some drums in there at the end. His electric drum kit, which featured a cymbal as a kick drum, gave us the synth drum effect we were after, but with the flexibility of being able to punch it in a fairly untamed tempo. For a man who's not a drummer, it’s a pretty complicated drum bit - he’s a man of many talents is our Fin, with this track to show for it. I’m excited for Fin feature number 5. Maybe we make a comp Ep of all Fin’s appearances??

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