04 Oct Charlotte O’Connor: Introducing Blackburn’s ‘acoustic hip pop’
It was a late Friday night. The basement to the 229 venue that lies just outside of Great Portland Street tube station was hot, humid and cramped. People were bustling in chatter with anticipation for what was to come; a young 20 year old Blackburn hailing folk/soul talent by the name of Charlotte O’Connor was to sing. Before the live performance, Soul Culture’s very own Philip Javens caught up with the rising UK star to talk about her debut album For Kenny, new single “Treasure Island,” her admiration for Akon and imaginary mice...
As the name suggests, Perfect Darkness takes on the chiaroscuro effects it evokes, and forms a deep thunderous catharsis with the voice of a melancholic baritone acoustic singer called Fink. Fink's fifth album sounds like a broken man who’s torn away the passions of his heart and laid it to rest onto this CD – it feels like a modern day Greek tragedy. Produced by Billy Bush (Beck, Garbage), Fin Greenall and his band produced this album in the space of 20 days. Recorded in Los Angeles, the Brighton-based singer/songwriter wanted to capture the raw, organic urgency of fear onto his album - and from the opening number, I can safely say that Perfect Darkness well executes their conception with heart-throbbing accuracy.