Brooklyn Vegan debuts video for "Satanic Exit" by Lars Finberg

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Brooklyn Vegan debuts the first video off of Lars Finberg’s Tinnitus Tonight LP, and dubbed the album “Records of the Week” in the same day!

“Lars Finberg is weirdo garage rock royalty, with an especially stacked CV that includes The A Frames, Oh Sees, Wounded Lion, Unnatural Helpers, Puberty, Rubber Blanket and, of course, The Intelligence who he's led through an almost The Fall level of lineup changes. Unlike Mark E Smith, it's not a me-and-your-granny-on-bongos situation with Lars -- he's just released his second solo album. I'm still unsure what makes something an Intelligence record or a solo record, but I guess I should stop worrying and be glad Lars continues to pump out records of consistently high quality.

Within the first minute or so of Tinnitus Tonight it's clear this is a Lars Finberg record. There's a way he puts together his songs that no matter what the instrumentation is -- though usually guitars, bass and drums, but also a lot of synth this time -- it puts your teeth on edge in a good way. Tempos feel cranked to match stress levels. Guitars are somehow both taught and liquid, with surfy licks and wild acid leads. Hooks abound and they won't stop poking you. Paranoia surrounds, but he's mostly handling it, and he wants us to feel the same way. "My mind finally changed temperature," he laments in "Beach Bass" across a slashing, drony riff. "I've been too hot, I've been too cold, and I just want to be warm."

Tinnitus Tonight finds Lars trying to make the best of it in middle aged, relatively domestic adulthood. "What can you throw when you get old and all your things are too nice to throw?" he wonders in "Boy Division." On the wigged out "Public Admirer" he notes "There's nothing marijuana cannot solve / I joke / I see the devil when I smoke / and I see god when I don't" -- clearly neither option is ideal. Made with producer Chris Woodhouse, keyboardist Lauren Mikus and drummer Kaanan Mikus, Tinnitus Tonight was actually recorded at the end of 2016 around the same time as his first solo record and yet it feels very now. It's party music for the inundated and overstimulated. "I can't help it if it's too strange, I just let it arrive." - Brooklyn Vegan