Finn Johansson Releases New Single/Video ‘You Look Down At Me’
Finn Johansson is on the cusp of a new horizon, following the sweaty fire of his student radio chart-topping single 6 Pack.
A fresh arrival to Tāmaki Makaurau, he’s fully immersed himself in Finn Johansson’s Nine To Five, a wild crowdfunding operation where he pumps out music during live-streamed consecutive 40 hour work weeks.
This latest track, You Look Down At Me, is part of the 9-5 season 1 mixtape, launching on November 18th, 2022, and is the first of the fruits from his operation.
Finn says, “You Look Down At Me, takes the best parts of lo- and hi-fi indie music, and weaves them together with, like, a beautiful melodic simplicity.
The lyrics are about the deeply un-mundane things we feel, while we’re doing deeply mundane things.
It sounds like Frankie Cosmos meets Bill Callahan meets… some song with a beautiful violin solo …Van Morrison? meets The Strokes.”
Treat yourself to the newest track from a musician who’s songwriting muscles are truly bulging right now.
“I love that song” – Jesse Mulligan, Radio New Zealand (about a different song though)
“His unrelenting creativity… reminds me at times of Frank Zappa.” – The 13th Floor
“Finn Johansson writes self-described “feelings music” akin to the colour of the back of your eyelids when you’re kissing or breathing in an exhale or the pinching feeling of hope just before you have your heart broken. His songs are full of curiosity; ambitious arrangements with frayed edges, lo-fi bedroom recordings with the incisive precision of an astute musical ear. Overarchingly they are natural, full of the non-sequiturs associated with raw love and pain. Johansson has a skill for parsing back experiences to their most potent elements, and gently handing them over with his lilting falsetto.” – Kiki Van Newtown, Under The Radar
