Hard Believer is an album that has stuck with me since the first time I heard it. There’s a real pain underneath the surface of each and every song, a long forgotten wound that has been covered by scar tissue and hardened with the passage of time. Delicate acoustic guitar lines weave through shadowy atmospheric textures while Fink’s hushed vocals barely peek out from underneath the fog. And when combined with the subtle percussion, which sounds like a heartbeat trying to hold everything together, you get a haunting sense of intimacy which envelopes you and transports you to another world.
There’s very few artists who have the skill and patience to go through the arduous process of world-building in their music nowadays. Fink is certainly one of them.
Standout Songs: “Hard Believer”, “Green and the Blue”, “Pilgrim”, “Shakespeare”, “Looking Too Closely”
