Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Fionn Regan Title: End of History Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 1 Label: Lost Highway Original Release Date: 1/1/2007 Re-Release Date: 7/10/2007 Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock Styles: Contemporary Folk, Singer-Songwriters, Folk Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 5033197407982, 602517356986, 0689232097684, 5033197407920 |
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 | Fionn Regan End of History Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock
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 d... more »     |
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Album Description 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. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsGod Bless Computer Generated Recommendations!! S. Jones | Des Moines | 07/18/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "I was referred to Fionn Regan via similar artists recommendation (if you like ____, then you'll love _____) and am so thankful that I took a leap of faith on The End of History. What I discovered was an alluring, delicate and emotional piece - an incredible journey that you will want to share after your first listen (hence this review). Like other sites that recommend similar artists, Fionn is often grouped with the legends (Dylan, Drake, Cohen) and today's singer-songwriters like Conor Oberst, Elliott Smith(rip) and Damien Rice... but Fionn also seems to be his own musician and while there might be some influence in his music, the album is totally unique. Fionn's lyricism and blending of melodies stand out on several tracks. While "Be Good or Be Gone" seems to be the flagship song with an amazingly unique video (check it out), other tracks like "Hunter's Map," "Snowy Atlas Mountains," and "Abacus" are phenomenal songs that you will never tire of. To wrap it up... The End of History is a versatile album you can play when alone on a cold, snowy day but also the perfect album to play when having friends over for dinner. You'll never have to get up to skip over a track... and at the end of the day, isn't that what we all want? " Send out a battalion.... Sam J. Ritchey | chicago, il | 08/01/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "inches away from a live fionn regan, mop coiffed and cobbled in white patent leather, playing for about 100 people at schubas in chicago it dawned on me that i would never enjoy such a seat again... if you like damien rice, blah blah blahhhhh...stop it. fionn regan is not damien rice. just in case that weren't clear, fionn has attached his initials in various species of tape to the wares he carries on stage, including three guitars, guitar case and hanky. not that fionn doesn't beat his breast and tear his hair in his own irish way. he runs laps in the rainy day, sexually charged melancholia of mr. rice, but doesn't stay there for long. instead of a cynical and almost fatalistic anger, fionn emerges far more intact...he invites you into a bittersweet wanderlust and you want to join him ever so badly. in the end, this is the currency of young heartbreak--romantic or otherwise. he delivers, if not innovation, a stiff upper lipped laugh into the night that makes me want to laugh too, hardscrabble days be damned. " Perfect R. KANE | Milwaukee, WI | 09/19/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "This album is so perfect that it's devastating. Every song is so emotionally affecting that it's like there's something primal about his songwriting that I can't even explain. I adore all of the songs but my favorite is Snowy Atlas Mountains. When I first listened to it, it reminded me of something that I couldn't even place. I played it for a friend and she had the same response, it's almost transportational. Really, I like this album and so should you."
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