Here’s a gem released earlier this year that we neglected to share with our beloved Roadburn readers. Please excuse the oversight! Blame it on festival fever… Lovingly pinched from Chronicles of Chaos: This album is an experience. Some music is best enjoyed at high volumes, other in a live concert setting, yet still more as background melodies played as you go about other business. Finnr’s Cane and the material they summon is like no other.
Many unique qualities inhabit the mystique making up the illusively captivating Finnr’s Cane. While their compositions of desolate wintery abandonment might deceptively lead the listener to believe this outfit hails from Norway, Finland or even Sweden, Finnr’s Cane call Canada home. The vast expanse of their chillingly despondent material is created by just three members: The Bard (vocals, guitar), The Peasant (percussion) and The Slave (synthesizers, cello).
With the absolute absence of a bass guitar, Finnr’s Cane is free and uninhibited to explore the solitude of negative atmosphere making up all of the fairly lengthy eight tracks on Wanderlust. This is where simply hearing or listening to this band falls short of the unbridled potential within; it is meant to be experienced. Songs titles like ‘Snowfall’, ‘A Winter for Shut-Ins’, ‘The Lost Traveller’ (sic) and ‘House of Memory’ give soon-to-be fans of Finnr’s Cane an ever-so-fragile glimpse into the trio’s wind-cracked ethereal transcendence.
Continue reading: CoC : Finnr’s Cane – Wanderlust : Review.
Tags: Aaron McKay, Album of the day, black metal, Chronicles of Chaos, Finnr's Cane, Lupus Lounge, Prophecy Productions, Wanderlust
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