Sunday Night Blues Club Vol 1 CD

Something of a departure for this soulful Ninja Tune troubadour, this stripped down and spare record essentially does exactly what it says on the tin,in all forms except being quite as cheerful as the club setting suggests - this is a collection of blues ditties written with almost puritanically obsessive zeal in that idiom and put down at home by Fink at home in Berlin with only a guitar, an amp and a few microphones. In stripping down his songwriting to the bare essentials, the gritty vitality of his approach reaps rich rewards, arriving at what is unquestionably his finest work yet - a soulful, heartfelt and understated record that plays to his strengths without any of the trappings of studio trickery, and expands from its minimal modus operandi with power and impact.