Fionn Regan - The End of History
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Artist: Fionn ReganEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Music Label: Lost Highway
Soundtracks:
- Be Good Or Be Gone
- The Underwood Typewriter
- Hunters Map
- Hey Rabbit
- Black Water Child
- Put a Penny In the Slot
- The Cowshed
- Snowy Atlas Mountains
- Noah (Ghost In a Sheet)
- The End Of History
- Abacus
- Bunker Or Basement
Free Music Notes for The End of History
Free Music Review: Pulling Away from the Pack
Hit: 4 Stars
I picked up Fionn Regan's "The End of History" on a whim, pulled in by the sticker copy that noted similarities to Dylan and Nick Drake and the fact that the singer/songwriter is Irish. While it's easy to draw comparisons with some of his contemporaries in the genre, and there are similarities, Regan sets himself apart with lyrics, medlodies, musicianship, and voice. Some of the songs border on pretentious by skimming the surface of meaning and emotion, but none were skipped over. I want my folkies to summon a storm in the atmosphere and take me on that dark journey through the soul. Regan accomplishes that with "Snowy Atlas Mountain" and touches on it in "Hunter's Map." If his future endeavors take his expression in that direction, I would follow him to the ends of the earth.
Favorite tracks: Snowy Atlas Mountain, Hunter's Map, Black Water Child, Bunker or Basement.
The End of History Poster
Imagine a whimsical, sunnier Nick Drake. Or perhaps a young Donovan for the 21st century. With his lithe, limber, and conversational tenor complemented by the subtle virtuosity of his acoustic guitar, the Dublin troubadour sustains an engaging intimacy even when his material seems on the slight side (more precocious than profound). Though his childlike innocence extends to the hand-lettered lyrics in the CD booklet, he invokes the literary influence of Saul Bellow and Paul Auster on "Put a Penny in the Slot." Much of this self-produced release finds Regan playing solo (often with double-tracked harmonies), with the spare employment of strings, piano, and percussion making their use all the more striking. An unlisted bonus cut seems to channel the range of Jeff Buckley. --Don McLeeseFrom the delicate and deceptively intricate "Be Good or Be Gone" that inaugurates Fionn Regan's debut album, The End of History, it's apparent that his is a talent not to be ignored. Recalling any number of folkish predecessors--Bob Dylan, Jose Gonzalez, Nick Drake--Regan's finger-picked guitar work and warm, Damien Rice-like vocals flow through this entire project like meandering, golden streams. Mixing winsome melodies with emotive chords and quasi-poetic lyricism, Regan straddles the classic folk sound of the '60s and the contemporary neo-folk scene with bristling aplomb. Unlike many so called "new folk" heroes, though, Regan keeps his approach simple, varying his songs not with electronic beats or acidic guitar squalls but light embellishments such as brooding strings (see the dark, Gonzalez-esque "Hunter's Map") and subtle backing vocals (see "Black Water Child"). Though skeletal, Regan's songs create a dreamy, nostalgic ambience that successfully eschew clich?. Intimate and contemporary, universal and classic, The End of History is a triumphant and highly accessible first outing. --Paul Sullivan
The community of musicians can be divided into two categories -- those who want to create and those who do so because they have no other choice. As he proves on his dauntingly mature, intriguingly nuanced Lost Highway debut, The End of History, singer-songwriter Fionn Regan clearly falls into the decidedly rarefied latter category.
The soft-spoken 26-year-old coaxes an intoxicating array of emotion and detail into his fragile-yet-gripping songs -- a body of work that's already elicited comparisons to forebears as varied as Nick Drake for his guitar playing and to Woody Guthrie for his wordplay. It's easy to understand why, given the filigreed acoustic finger-picking and raw lyrical stance of songs like the cinematic "Be Good or Be Gone" the menacing "Snowy Atlas Mountains" or the allegorical "Hey Rabbit" with its social conscience, songs that paint intensely vivid pictures -- so vivid, in fact, that Regan hesitates to elaborate as to their deeper origins.
He keeps the frills to a minimum on the dozen-song collection, getting his point across with little more than voice, acoustic guitar and piano (most of The End of History's songs were captured in one or two takes) he never gives the idea that he's practicing minimalism for its own sake. That comes into particularly sharp focus when one hones in on his guitar playing, a beguiling brew of rhythmically sturdy finger-picking (the backbone of "Hunters Map") and (as on the twinkling "Abacus"), lissome passages in which every note resonates with crystalline clarity.
The Beguiling Debut Album from this Extraordinarily Talented Young Artist, who is Perhaps Destined to Be Regarded as One of the Most Unique Voices of his Generation.
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