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If you are looking for the record-toting, remixing DJ Fink of old however, what you will find in his place may not be quite as you remembered him. Biscuits for Breakfast keeps all the cool of NTone but shifts focus dramatically to heartfelt acoustic nu-folk cuts, a departure which has brought him, and Ninjatunes, a whole new facet, fanbase and credibility in the world of the singer-songwriter.

Biscuits for Breakfast is packed with personal, emotional stories, some painful ones like the wistful and melancholy reminiscence of Glastonbury 2000 ‘Pills in My Pocket’, and I doubt whether there will be a more stunning opening track in 2006 than ‘Pretty Little Thing’, the track that started the Fink’s journey to making the album.

Fink’s laid-back vocals belie his sharp phrasing and the guitars sound as though they are pulled straight out of the Deep South. The production, as you would expect from a Ninjatune output, is outstanding, simple and uncluttered but full of depth that gets you reaching for the repeat button before it’s even played out.

This album will draw comparisons with the rebel folk of John Martyn in the title track ‘Biscuits for Breakfast’ (along with the hopefully intended homage to Martyn paid in the guitar line of ‘All Cried Out’), to the delta blues of the kind he pushed on Sawhney’s ‘Deadman’, to Bush in the Seattle grunge sentiments of ‘You Gotta Change’.

A departure from the expected? Certainly. Worth going out of your way for? Absolutely.

Biscuits for Breakfast is out now on Ninjatunes.

Links:
www.ninjatune.net
www.finkworld.co.uk