Customer Reviews

Distance and Time

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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.

Some more downtempo folk on _Distance and Time_ as Fink continues to explore his more acoustic side. These tracks have a delicacy to them, as evidenced by the subtle strings and guitar strumming of "Trouble's What You're In" or the softly self-abasing "If Only." A solid drum line grounds the hunger-inducing "Blueberry Pancakes," allowing room for the guitars to build, while the repetition on "Under the Same Stars" doesn't build as much as it peters out. The lyrics here are certainly above par (where else can you sing a longing ode to a "Little Blue Mailbox"?), but the album as a whole doesn't quite manage to distinguish itself.

I simply cannot get enough of Fink. Every person I play him for, loves him. Why is he not huge? I will keep doing my part and playing him for people, around the clock.

Blueberry Pancakes, If Only and Move on Me are my personal favorites. Sad, beautiful, romantic, minimal and unique. Lovely for a dinner party or a somber night at home!

Keep going man, you are incredible.

Melodic moody sound. I really like Little Blue mailbox and Get your share. " I used to live on cloud nine, now I moved to eight..."

give it a try!

Stumbled onto this artist accidently on youtube, and i'm so glad I did. I loved every song and even bought his Biscuits for breakfast cd without hearing it because this one was so good. I wasn't disappointed.

By far Finks best Album, 7 out of 9 songs are extremely good. Usually 3-4 songs on an album are good regardless of band/singer, this is one of those rare ones that almost all the songs are good. Sort of Revolution is right behind it.

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.

If you don't know who Fink is, you're losing when it comes to the music scene. His first album, "Biscuits For Breakfast", had a huge impact on me. It's pretty minimal in terms of musical arrangement, but it gets by on lyrics, head-nodding music, and his voice. This guy has one of those voices that you talked about like Chris Martin when you first heard Coldplay. (They don't have similar voices, stupid.)
Anyway, this album is different from "Biscuits..." due to the club music hints. (He used to create and produce club music.) It's a bit more forward, but make no mistake, this is still a laid-back album.
The opener, "Trouble..." is a perfect start. And it keeps the mood -- after a few build ups -- until the final joint. My favorite songs are "This is the Thing", "Blueberry Pancakes", "Under the Same Stars" (hot damn!!!), and "So Many Roads". "Under..." is that song you always wanted to play when you were thinking about someone you really dig, but you're not able to catch up with each other for whatever reason.
Anyway, it's a really, really good album -- not great like "Biscuits..." But it medicates my Fink fix.
Buy it thru the Marketplace for $19. The import price is a total rip-off. I hope he makes it back the States for a San Francisco show. Peace!