Fingerless ‘Repeater’ Album Launch w/ Chiffon Magnifique + 88 Tokamak
‘Repeater' is the fifth album by the band Fingerless.
Launching at their favourite inner city haunt, The Cave Inn, with friends Chiffon Magnifique and 88 Tokamak along for the ride.
1930 // doors
1950 // 88 Tokamak
2040 // Chiffon Magnifique
2130 // Fingerless
Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/repeater
It was recorded mainly in Jeff Lovejoy’s studio Black Box Recording, with some tasteful overdubs done in my dodgy home studio. The title of the album has a bit more meaning than you might think. The life of a musician is full of repetition: listening to the same song(s) or artist(s) over and over again, learning/practicing an instrument is just playing the same thing(s) over and over again, writing a song is just playing a riff or chord progression over and over again until you find a lyric or melody or whatever that goes with it, writing lyrics feels like saying the same thing over and over again—and don’t even get me started on the recording/mixing/mastering process.
More than this, though, most of the songs on this album seem (to me, at least) to circle around the same topic: human connection and hope. We need this. We’ve always needed this, and we always will. We’re all repeaters, in the end. Some of these songs were written during the extended post-2020 malaise, while others were written before COVID, and still others were written more recently. But for whatever reason these songs ended up being about things people share; moments, lifetimes, tears, fears, ambition, jealousy, jokes, stories and legacies. None of this is new, we tell the same stories to each other over and over again; we all feed the same stream. But, nevertheless, there’s always more to come, more to share, more to lament. More of the same? Probably. But does that make it any less meaningful?
Playing and believing, tell me something more revealing.
Taking and repeating, building something more appealing.
‘Repeater' will be launched at a venue that the band has played repeatedly, The Cave Inn, on Friday March 13th - spooky! - with help from Chiffon Magnifique (debuting new live band after a 12 month hiatus) and 88 Tokamak (who’ve recently been receiving lots of love on account of their stellar debut album 'Telescopes Out At The Rollerdisco').
Continuing their tradition, Fingerless are releasing ‘Repeater' on 3.5” floppy disk (and digitally). In addition to the new album being lovingly packed in the now long-defunct format, Fingerless’ first four albums will also be available for purchase on 3.5” floppy as well. Look, when everything is available online in super high def, even buying vinyl becomes a gimmick - so why not buy a floppy disk and support the artists in a different way?
