Finn Johansson

Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s Finn Johansson writes self-described “feelings music” akin to the colour of the back of your eyelids when you’re kissing or breathing in an exhale or the pinching feeling of hope just before you have your heart broken. His songs are full of curiosity; ambitious arrangements with frayed edges, lo-fi bedroom recordings with the incisive precision of an astute musical ear. Overarchingly they are natural, full of the non-sequiturs associated with raw love and pain. He has a skill for parsing back experiences to their most potent elements, and gently handing them over with his lilting falsetto.

Hailing from Te Whanganui-a-Tara, fresh from a 20-date headline European tour and hard at work on his next record, Finn Johansson is at an exciting and crucial time in his career.