- 2024-09-14
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MUSIC
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FINNEAS Releases New Song “Cleats”
American singer-songwriter and record producer FINNEAS released a new song “Cleats” on September 13, 2024.
The song is the second single off of his upcoming sophomore album “For Cryin' Out Loud!”, which is set to be released on October 4, 2024.
The song received its first play during BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The track captures the messy agony of unrequited adolescent love.
The track was written by Aron Forbes, David Marinelli, Finneas O'Connell, Lucy Healy, Matthew Fildey, and Miles Morris. Produced by FINNEAS.
The accompanying music video was directed by Isaac Ravishankara, who drew mini FINNEAS in the clip.
FINNEAS told Jack Saunders about the song, “I think this song, to me, has a real nostalgic feeling. This is about some stuff that happened to me when I was like 13, some stuff that happened to like, friends of mine. It's really about being 13 and being in love with your lesbian best friends. That's what the song is really about. We kept it ambiguous enough that if you didn't hear me say that just now, it doesn't have to be about that, but that's what it's about.”
He continued, “I was in this group of sessions with some of my really close writer, producer friends, and my buddy Ricky played that guitar part, which is very kind of like, Talking Heads, just kind of beachy feel. And I just was like, I know where to take this song. And it was April or May. I think I was like, oh, man, this reminds me of that kind of feeling at the end of the summer where you're like, wishing that all the warm days and the relaxed feeling isn't going to run out. And then, it's just like, oh, this thing is doomed to end, right away.”- The new album comprises 10 tracks, which he worked on with a full band, unlike his debut album that he made by himself.
FINNEAS said of the album, “I think to me on the last album, again, I was much younger, and I think maybe trying to seem like I had more figured out than I did, and I was sort of writing that album as if I was like, looking out a window in a tall building, like looking at everything and trying to be like, this is the way it is, maybe even though I didn't know. And this album, I set about, sort of trying to write an album that was like, sitting across a table at a bar, like over a drink, just sort of talking to people.”
He told Rolling Stone about the album, “I made my last album completely alone in a room. But it was really lonely and I didn't feel like, 'This is the best possible way it could sound, I'm so glad I made it alone.' I thought I did an OK job. So on this album, I've made a point to be hyper-collaborative. Fortunately, most of my friends are producers.” -
FINNEAS will perform at a handful of special album release shows, the likes of The Ford in Los Angeles on October 3, Banquet Records in London on October 6, and Warsaw in Brooklyn on October 12, 2024.
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FINNEAS shared, “Playing a few small shows in October to celebrate the release of the album (and many many shows in many many countries next year) bittersweet because it means not being on tour with Billie for HMHAS (I'll still be at as many of her shows as I can be) but grateful for the chance to play these shows for you with some of my closest friends. See you in LA, London, and New York.” - source : Apple Music
