Nut Music
P.O. Box 5033
Herndon, VA 22070
Press Release #8
For immediate release (please) July 19, 1994
Finn McCool’s Soup Hits The Spot
If you said, “Batter up,” chances are Finn McCool would already be at the plate. This guy’ll swing at anything. Sure, it’s a “swing and a miss” combination a lot of the time, but just as often he connects, and when he does it’s bound to be a hit (when we use the word “hit” here at Nut Music, it’s always in the metaphorical sense).
Just check out Finn’s new album on Nut Music, Skin Of The Soup, for instance. He takes a crack at rap, sampling, musique concrilte, a contemporary folk ballad with a million verses, Irish-inspired space music, torchy-jazzy swing, ·as well as the patented acoustic noise band jams that Finn and his Navy have perfected over the years.
It’s a potent brew that has people scrambling for adjectives.
Finn’s music has been described as “oddly compelling” and “interesting, in the best sense of the word,” but it’s probably best appreciated in the spirit in which it was intended – as Angus MacKinnon of NME says, “Nothing too serious and nothing too flippant,” ie. everything is relevant, but nothing matters. Or as Finn’s old trumpet teacher (rr.etaphorica.JJ.y speaking) Miles Davis used to say, “I’ll play it first, and tell you”what it is later.”
An artist like Finn McCool comes along only once in his lifetime, so it’s best to appreciate him while he’s here, because he won’t care later.
So step up to the plate friends, and don’t forget your bowl because your soup is ready.
