- Genre: Rock ‘n’ Roll
- For fans of: Glaas, The Birthday Party, The Von Bondies
- Stand-out tracks: ‘Shame’, ‘(My Human) Extinction’
Hardcore, post-punk, garage-rock, shoegaze, synth-pop – not many bands out there can claim to have such a wide-ranging sound. Berlin duo Dead Finks, however, manage to do it all – and do it well. New Zealanders Erin Violet and Joseph Thomas began writing music together while living in Sydney, before moving themselves and their band to Berlin in 2019.
In May of this year, the duo released their third record, Eve of Ascension, which deals with urban desolation and existential angst. This time round, the band roped in two more musicians to craft a fuller sound that they describe as a ‘survey of suffering shot through with anxious belligerence’. At their core, Dead Finks are melancholic, paranoid modern punks, influenced by the likes of Wire, Sonic Youth and The Fall, who pour their hearts out their new wave sounds.
No strangers to the Berlin underground circuit, the band has played all the backwater punk-rock halls and squats this city – and country – has to offer, and will carry on doing so, injecting their cathartic, guttural guitar sounds into the baying masses of rock fans.
