If I was hitting my late 40s and listening to this album for the first time, I’d think I was menopausal thanks to the amount of hot flushes I was having…this album is incredible.

The only reason you could be disappointed with Finch’s second album is if you were expecting ‘What It Is To Burn part 2’. Sounding as far removed from their debut as possible, ‘Say Hello To Sunshine’ combines all the brutally perfect elements of Finch. Having thrown his lungs up a little too far down the microphone on first album ‘What It Is To Burn’, singer Nate Barcalow manages to modify and genuinely deliver the screaming=emotion(?) formula on this second offering. Finch tend to build their melodies around the perfectly pitched vocals of Barcalow – a brave feat for any band but one that words so well for the blessed singer. He has a voice more than worthy of praise, he chooses to sing when HE needs to, and not when he feels he has nothing better to do.

With a staggering fifteen songs to choose from, the first track happens to be the album’s best. A successful wake-up call into the revitalised minds of Finch, ‘Insomniatic Meat’ is melodic yet jagged, whilst sounding like the soundtrack to a camp horror film in places. Memorable vocals mixed with cleverly appropriate feedback make this song into the kind of opener every good album should have.

Stand-out tracks such as ‘Brother Bleed Brother’ prove that Finch have well and truly buried forced anthems such as ‘Letters To You’ and have moved into songs they sound genuinely pleased to have written. The constant guitar riff of ‘Ink’ will have Finch’s crowds moshing like jack in the boxes whilst ‘A Man Alone’ sounds like a drunken hardcore band performing a gig in a jazz club.

Not sounding too different from a demo Glassjaw could have written, ‘Say Hello To Sunshine’ ticks every box for a band’s second album, it’s tighter, it’s thought provoking and it’s a leading example for any band trying to break through into the world of post-hardcore today. Well done boys.

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