Findlay Brown
Sunday afternoon.
Back by popular demand!
Findlay Brown gives the singer-songwriter back the edge that made the likes of Bob Dylan and Paul Simon more than just bardy entertainers.
His ambitious music may be intimate, bare, and dare-I-say-it sensitive. But vitally it’s also courageous, triumphant, challenging and otherworldly. Emotionally-driven, psychedelic, spiked with wit, blessed with a cidery traditionalism and foiled with subtle, yet noticeably modern, production from Simian’s Simon Lord, Findlay’s work is truly ‘alternative folk’. But he says he’s “more influenced by sixties music in turn influenced by folk”. Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Band, and cult auteur Jackson C Frank are his own points of reference.
Over Christmas 2007 his track ‘Come Home’ was use for a Master Card advert. His debut album ‘Separated by the Sea’ was release to critical acclaim in Feb. 2007
19/2/07 - 5* review in The Guardian for "Separated by the Sea"!
Dave Simpson
Friday February 16, 2007
The Guardian
Findlay Brown's powerfully melancholic Come Home ("Maybe I'm wrong, amputate sympathy") is hardly the obvious choice for a Mastercard advert. Then again, its TV ubiquity is predictability itself compared to the likelihood of a York-born, formerly LSD-chomping, Hendrix-worshipping bare knuckle fighter turning in an album of exquisite acoustic gems.
"Sets 2007's benchmark for gorgeous troubadour folk" 4/5 Mojo.
