Liam Finn could rightly be identified as a world citizen. The New Zealand native was a globetrotting toddler, accompanying father Neil Finn on Crowded House tours, repeating the experience as a young adult with his own band, the renowned Betchadupa. To record FOMO, the sophomore follow-up to 2007 solo debut I’ll Be Lightning, Finn relocated to London, but moved to New York City three years ago. Finn’s third solo set, The Nihilist, runs the gamut of his genetic and experiential influences. Finn will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new feature on him.
Finn: Critter & Guitari are a Philadelphia based synthesizer company making really cool pocket pianos, bass synths and video scopes. They are insanely fun to play with but actually very useful and unique sounding. I recently got the video scope, which turns the sound you feed into it into 8-bit graphics. It’s a lighting guy in a box really. I have been hooking it up to the signal of my guitar, projecting it onto myself, and it feels like I’m in the Matrix.
