Biscuits for Breakfast

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Biscuits for Breakfast
Biscuits for Breakfast (Fink album) cover art.jpg
Studio album by
Released24 April 2006 (2006-04-24)
Recorded2005 in Brighton and London, UK
Genre Indie rock, folk-pop, blues
Length38:02
Label Ninja Tune ZEN104
Producer Fin Greenall, Dean James, Ben Thackeray
Fink chronology
Fresh Produce
(2002)
Biscuits for Breakfast
(2006)
Distance and Time
(2007)

Biscuits for Breakfast is the second album from British musician Fin Greenall and, collectively as Fink, the band's debut album. It was released in 2006 on Ninja Tune.

Contents

Background

Prior to this album, Fin Greenall had been DJing and producing for label Ninja Tune from around 1997. He cites listening to Zero 7's first album Simple Things as one of the many inspirations for him to try something a little different from his dub roots, and old friend Guy Whittaker as well as newly acquainted Tim Thornton saw the rebirth of the name "Fink" as a trio. [1] It was released throughout Europe in the spring of 2006.

Critical reception

The album has received generally positive reviews from music critics. Thom Jurek from Allmusic gave the album 3 and a half stars out of 5, commenting that "there is a wonderfully intimate smokiness in Fink's approach to his songs". [2] Ben Hogwood of musicOMH gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, saying of Greenall that he "sounds totally at ease expressing himself in this medium" and the album is "a small gem of a record". [3] Pixelsurgeon awarded 9 circles out of 10, with Sam Gilbey praising the effort, as the "whole album swaggers with a natural confidence that few manage within any genre". [4]

Track listing

No.TitleComposer(s)Length
1."Pretty Little Thing" Fin Greenall 4:35
2."Pills in My Pocket"Fin Greenall, Tim Thornton, Guy Whittaker4:31
3."You Gotta Choose"Fin Greenall, Martin Haley, Tim Thornton, Guy Whittaker3:16
4."All Cried Out" Steve Jolley, Alison Moyet, Tony Swain 4:40
5."Hush Now"Tina Grace, Fin Greenall4:11
6."Biscuits for Breakfast"Fin Greenall, Tim Thornton, Guy Whittaker3:53
7."So Long"Fin Greenall, E WanDan, Guy Whittaker3:49
8."Kamlyn"Fin Greenall, Martin Haley, Tim Thornton, Guy Whittaker4:28
9."Sorry I'm Late (XFM Flo-Motion Session)"Fin Greenall4:34

Personnel

"Pills in My Pocket" produced and engineered by Ben Thackeray
"Sorry I'm Late" produced by Dean James and Sumit Bothra and engineered by Dean James

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