hypersongs

Pass the Distance

His only album of the original era: ten songs of alienation and loneliness, recorded when he was nineteen.
Simon Finn, 1970

Finn played guitar and sang his own songs, with David Toop on electric guitar and Paul Burwell on percussion; Wikipedia also names Robert Buckland and Ken Elliot, and Classic Folk says Kenny Elliot played organ. The themes, he said, are alienation and loneliness. A reviewer compares the singing to a more aggressive Syd Barrett, and Raven Sings the Blues in 2018 called it a necessary vision of stream of consciousness, cracked-mirror folk. We found no commercial performance and no tracklist with times.

Track listing

  1. Very Close Friend
  2. The Courtyard
  3. What a Day
  4. Fades (Pass the Distance)
  5. Jerusalem
  6. Where's Your Master Gone
  7. Laughing 'Til Tomorrow
  8. Hiawatha
  9. Patrice
  10. Big White Car

More from Simon Finn

Magic Moments (2005), Accidental Life (2007)

Sources

  1. Pass the Distance, Superior Viaduct
  2. Simon Finn, Pass the Distance, Raven Sings the Blues (2018)