![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, the album’s title track is written as reassurance for a friend of Greenall’s entering a “massive record deal”, which is about as classic a case of a #firstworldproblem as you could care to mention. Instead, while these songs are steeped in the strummed acoustic guitar and tender strings we associate with folk, they deal with contemporary concerns. Greenall has been quoted trying to explain Perfect Darkness‘s theme as something quite apart from “being dumped or ships leaving meadows or whatever it is people think folk’s supposed to be nowadays”. There’s an advantage that comes with coming to a style as a relative outsider, and that’s a greater ability to challenge dominant conventions. Yet this is the story of Fin “Fink” Greenall, still with Ninja Tune and now releasing his fourth album of dark, organic tunes. That such a man should have had collaborations with the likes of American R&B star John Legend and British rapper Professor Green sounds more improbable still. That a DJ and producer for London-based independent electro label Ninja Tune should have a subsequent career as the core of an acoustic trio, for example, seems quite a stretch. ![]() Often the best things are said to be “more than the sum of their parts”, but sometimes the numbers don’t appear to add up at all. ![]()
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