An amazing recording of San Francisco’s next Vashti Bunyan
I’m not much of a fan of singer/songwriter folk pop. Really, you put the words “singer” and “songwriter” together and I’m hit with horrible flashbacks of the days of “Lilith Fair.” But for me, the Finches are different, for two reasons: 1. They have awesome influences — Vashti Bunyan being one very awesome and obvious one, and 2. They write undeniably catchy songs that are not far off from the folk songs that influenced our favorite punk bands. (I actually figured out one song, “House Under a Hill,” and realized its verse was based on a “punk rock box” chord-structure* — C #, G #, D #, A # — but played as a waltz instead of a 4/4.)
