Findlay Brown

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"the most unlikely classic of the year" -Guardian

"catch this man... before his fame matches the size of his songs" -Metro

"a clever smorgasbord of '60s/'70s pop" -Uncut

"pure laid-back bliss" –Mixmag
  

The story of 'Love Will Find You', Findlay Brown's top-drawer US debut for Verve Forecast, begins with the 29-year-old Englishman finding himself on his sister's sofa after being struck by a cab, recuperating from a broken leg.  For Brown, alone with a tune-challenged yet stubbornly magical heirloom guitar that had treated him well creatively in the past, this unlikely stretch of time occasioned research as pleasurable as it was enforced.

   Brown owns a fluent, flexible pop tenor tending toward heaven but that retains an earthbound familiarity.  Songs like "Nobody Cared" and "Everybody Needs Love" make easeful use of the grammar of love triumphant and/or distressed yet the net emotional effect of Brown's careful, involved, yet unfussy performances on these thrillingly well-engineered tracks make the pieces dart off in myriad different directions sometimes unpredictable.  "People ask me," Brown mentions, "''What's this song about?' My first response is that, well, it's what it's about, it's there in the words, that I wrote this song about this thing so I don' t have to talk about it."

"Here," Brown believes, "what the song is about is actually the music: It's about the performance, the sort of spiritual act of both doing and, I hope, hearing it.  I rather hate to say this about any lyric I would write, but the lyric is almost insignificant to what is behind the lyric.  It's the point of departure.  It's the point where you cannot intellectually go on.  It's where you transcend into the experience of listening.  It's the end of explanation."