Finch Band • Page 21

I'd say they definitely do

 

I think about this time to time. Even if they didn’t want to tour - they should release it digitally to buy via Bandcamp.

 

Looks like Nate has a solo project coming out...

 

This demo was so good, bummed it never made it.

 

I personally think that demo is whatever (that’s from the co-writing sessions that Nate didn’t want to do in the first place but their label strongly pushed it) but the Phantasma demos are where it’s at!

 

yea Phantasma is like, a legit album even being unfinished/unreleased. Have the whole thing downloaded in my music for Finch's discography lol

 

Same! Love that record.

 

Phantasma is great. I hope someday we’ll get to hear what they were working on a couple years ago

 

What are these Finch demos? Anyone have track listings and or good quality versions? Don’t think I’ve heard them.

 

This was gonna be the next record but then Razor & Tie wanted them to bring in writers cause they weren’t fully happy with these demos (Nate said this in an interview post break up) which led to band members arguing which then led to the break up.

Nate himself posted these on YouTube with the track names and all:

https://youtube.com/c/NateBarcalow

I ripped it a while back from YouTube and it sounds alright but the songs are great IMO. It’s a real shame they never were given full studio treatment.

 

The Phantasma demos are so good. It's such a shame this band could never stay together for long.

 

I remember someone attempting their own remaster of those demos, and that's the version I revisit once in a while. I still believe a finished version would've been their best work since Say Hello To Sunshine, even though it's a bit unfair to World Of Violence which seemed to have gone through significant changes from the leaked demos to the few songs they actually put out. It still makes me sad they played so much stuff from it live back then, yet it remains unreleased.

 

Listening to Phantasma now.

Finch's label screwed this one up so bad. They should have just trusted the band's creative instincts.

Contra, What You Are, and All For You were marketable songs that would have done fine with music videos.

 

100000%

 

If the band could only meet in the middle and include songs like "Monuments" with songs off Phantasma. I like both of their heavy/off-kilter and soft/poppy sides. It's a shame they couldn't co-exist.

 

It’s weird to me that there was even label meddling at that point in time tbh. To put it bluntly, while they were still a popular band, they were never gonna have the popularity they had in the WIITB era again, probably not even close. Just because their sound wasn’t in the mainstream in the same way it was in the early 2000s. That’s why I’m confused what the label’s goal even was with trying to meddle in their process. This was a band who’d been inactive for years and finally reunited, and had a loyal fanbase who would happily consume anything they put out. Why try to mess with that? Were they hoping for radio play? Just seems bizarre to me.

 

Hm, these are ok, still rough, and I still wish they just one more time coulda captured the magic of that first album.

 

Anyone notice anything…?

 

god that's an ugly poster but nice

 

Can’t wait for them to play this one festival before breakup #4

 

Betting on Finch to be together 1 year from now is crazy. But I hope we at least get the new album at some point in 2023.

 

Hoping for a response from Nate, Griz, or Pappas on whether this is the only Finch show next year

 

That's also the only post that remains on their instagram page. If they do announce new music in the upcoming year, that'll make for a bigger surprise for those who didn't keep up with their posts and so had no clue they got back together in 2019.

 

Not gonna lie, I had just assumed nothing came of those sessions. Would love to be proven wrong.

 

somehow, i lost track of this thread. I'm only finding out about the show today as I reconnect with WIITB and listen to Back to Oblivion