Eve of Ascension, by Dead Finks

Eve of Ascension

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	1.	Eve of Ascension 01:55
	2.	Anaesthetised 02:17
	3.	Shame 04:05
	4.	Propane Tanks 02:42
	5.	Pipeline 03:28
	6.	Masking 04:29
	7.	Birth 02:02
	8.	Baton 02:37
	9.	Answer 01:58

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This third full-length offering from Dead Finks finds the rootlessly recalcitrant rockers several winters into their Berlin years and fittingly warped by it. Their last record, “The Death & Resurrection Of Johnathan Cowboy” was patched in from the wet hot Sydney practice rooms of their previous pitstop, while “Eve of Ascension” sees the group - founded and maintained by New Zealanders Joseph Thomas and Erin Violet - pull two new members from the local underground to plumb darker depths, eight cold eyes to the steel grey sky. The Finks Method endures, paying big dividends to swivel-eyed shareholders in one loud hail of thick and grungified Swell Mapsian strangeness. Antipodeans let loose on the death strip: some terse, sinewy riffs suggest Hüsker Dü or Superchunk tweaking through a Berlin winter. Other lighter moments recall anxious echoes of the Dunedin sound poking for too long at the wrong hole: electrocuted but still smiling.

“Eve of Ascension” is a prelapsarian nine-track survey of suffering shot through with anxious belligerence. Thomas’ paranoid chants ring out with sputtering non-defeat, woozy caterwauling harmonies go toe-to-toe against insistently sclerotic drumming. Lyrics guide us down nightmare alleys: preoccupied with botched surgery: from sliced eyes to the evil needle, songs calmly count the exploitable products of the earth: ash and oil, human body parts in bags, via intricately caustic post-punk paeans to jumpy stumps and spineless piss-pigs. Dead Finks continue to excel in narrating the uncanny not-yet, stuck in our black night of now, right before the moment of something glorious, or something much, much worse.

Whatever is coming, it might just change everything

- Bryony Beynon

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released April 30, 2024

Erin Violet - Bass, Vocals
Joseph Thomas - Guitar, Vocals, Drums on "Answer"

Bernardo Sousa - Guitar, Drums on "Masking"
Robert Glanz - Drums

Lawrence Goodwin - Additional guitar, Production
Fabien de Menou - Additional guitar, Synthesiser, Production

Recorded by Lawrence Goodwin at Allee Der Kosmonauten
Mixed by Lawrence Goodwin and Fabien de Menou
Mastered by Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Services

Cover art by Gabrielle K. Brown

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