Brighton-based musician Matt Finucane is happy to be “an explorer and purveyor of the wonderfully unconventional and confrontational”, as Ringmaster Reviews wrote. He takes his influences from art rock, Krautrock and horrible electronic noise, and says:
“All my heroes are safely dead, but it's not just playing at being Music's Bad Conscience - I can recall when music meant something, in these days of deadly sonic perfection and pretend grit.”
Gigs are solo acoustic, in a duo, or full electric as the occasion demands. Albums are DIY-released and raw. This Mucky Age (2011) & Glow in the Dark (2012) – scored good reviews, followed by singles In The Evil Empire & Lilith in 2014/15. After a writing binge, the first of a batch of new material emerged as an EP – Threaten Me with Your Love – in 2017.
Around this time Matt put together a live band (featuring Mik Hanscomb of Junkboy), gigged across the UK and kept working on songs. On his latest release:
“I shelved an EP's worth of material to focus on the new stuff. I was trying to capture a complex set of emotions: the short-fused feeling of the times, as experienced by someone not sure of their place and wanting to do the right thing... but crossed by dark impulses and confusion. You don't know who to trust and you feel ugly... all you know is that you don't want to side with the forces of reaction. That's what was after.”
“Really should be heard by many many people” –** Louder Than War**
“Like the workmate who suddenly and joltingly reveals that not only is he smart but he also thinks very differently to you; or like the abrupt weirdness in the eleven a.m coffee cup” – Misfit City
“Much like with any good outsider, the more you listen to the songs, the more natural they become, and soon those quirks become hooks.” *– *This Is Not A Drill**
www.mattfinucane.net
It’s a way of life, not a lifestyle.