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Fink
Distance and Time
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Folk, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Trouble's What You're In
2. This Is the Thing
3. If Only
4. Blueberry Pancakes
5. Get Your Share - Fink, Abshagen, A.
6. Under Your Same Stars
7. So Many Roads
8. Make It Good
9. Little Blue Mailbox - Fink, Grabow, S.

CD Details

All Artists: Fink
Title: Distance and Time
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Nine Tune Records/Redeye
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 2/26/2008
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Folk, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop
Styles: Ambient, Electronica, Big Beat, Trip-Hop, Singer-Songwriters, Adult Alternative
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5021392477121

Synopsis

Album Description

This glorious follow-up showcases Fink's sharpened knack for thoughtful songwriting that details fragmented moments full of heartache and hopeful promise, steeped in sonic palettes rich with Dub, Blues, Folk and Acoustic soul. 9 tracks. If Biscuits for Breakfast, Fink's debut album for Ninja Tune, signified a partial seismic musical shift for both artist and label, then Distance and Time realigns both sides of the tectonic plate. Ninja Tune. 2008.

CD Reviews

Further departure

Justin M. Andrews | Baltimore, MD USA | 11/26/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Just wanted to add a note to the reviewer before me that Biscuits For Breakfast was NOT Fink's first release...Fresh Produce was his first. The aforementioned second release, Biscuits For Breakfast, and this most recent, Distance And Time, are polar shifts from the first. Continuing where he left off with Biscuits, this album is wholly a stronger effort with stronger lyrics and in my opinion, slightly cleaner production.

For any new listeners who are not familiar, Fink falls somewhere between the voice and lyrics of Mike Doughty (Soul Coughing) minus the experimentation (which was left on the experimental though simultaneously safe Fresh Produce), crossed with Jose Gonzalez after having received a shot of backbone.

Definitely worth checking out. Great album.

Trouble's What You're In, This Is The Thing, & So Many Roads are the three stand-outs on this very solid album. Make It Good, a song which made a reworked appearance on Bonobo's most recent release Days To Come, may suffer if you've heard the latter first.

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Mostly Coffee Shop fare....

Silverfox229 | KC MO | 10/07/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

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I wouldn't have purchased this album at a regular price, but I took a chance at $1.99. It doesn't disappoint at that price.

This is mostly coffee shop / Sunday morning music, except for Blueberry Pankcakes, which is a nice workout/dance song.

There are so few male voices in this genre (compared to say, Regina Spektor, Dido, Feist, KT Tunstall, etc) that I wanted to get some sexual balance into my portfolio of folk music. That's not to say this guy is on a level with those female performers, he is not quite there yet.

When I downloaded, the given genre was Alternative Rock, which fits for Blueberry Pancakes - but I changed the rest to be "Folk" genre.

My rating is 3 stars.

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