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The Runner EP
Tracklisting The Runner
Sharp Sharp
Bigger Boat
Review "Now that we've had at least a good couple
of years of bands partying like it's 1981 it must
be about time for the 1983 revival, and there's little
doubt in our mind that Finka, the Manc mob long beloved
of us live, have produced damn near the perfect EP
here for such an eventuality.
We've often wondered why bands don't
follow Peter Hook's bass-as-lead blueprint, yet on
Sharp Sharp that's precisely what Jeppo does, while
Jimmy's vocals crackle with the sort of passion you'd
have expected from watching U2 on an early outing
on The Tube, and 'Bigger Boat' layers bedsit-happy
guitars over the kind of tribal backing so prevalent
in the amusingly short-lived positive punk farrago.
It's all faintly tremendous,
obviously, and, appropriately, tremendous in scope
too. We've predicted stadiums calling these fellers
in the past, and this is no reason to start backtracking
on that now..." Iain Moffat, www.playlouder.co.uk
