About
Matt Finucane’s career spans well over two decades in the dark underbelly of music. He has released a string of vital albums and EPs over the last twenty years and more. A singular artist who has been compared to David Bowie, Mark E Smith and Lou Reed, he crafts a raw and introspective musical world – an atmospheric, angular and brooding sonic assault on the senses that burrows into his subconcious, excavating themes of alienation, introspection, and the darker corners of human experience.
His most recent release was the 2024 EP Bang Bang Exorcism on Eyeless Records – a lovely brick-red cassette of the finest forever chemicals. His upcoming album, Ruination (also on Eyeless), takes the angular, feedback-saturated energy one step weirder. He says he “doesn’t want to be your friend. He doesn’t care about smashing that Like button. He just wants to show you the power of unholy noise.”
Brighton UK, Sept 2026
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P R E S S
BANG BANG EXORCISM ep, 2024
Devolution Magazine ”imagine an alternative reality where Kraftwerk collaborated with Wire […] the unusual rhythms and arresting lyrics demand your full attention, but when the songs are as good as ‘The Jazzmaster’ why would you look elsewhere?”
Ringmaster Reviews ”an experimental punk heart aligned to alternative and inventive brashness […] our favourite and the most irresistible moment yet”
Fear and Loathing Fanzine ”never predictable or run of the mill […] intriguing, interesting and entertaining”
Moshville Times ”get out of music and become a sex worker. There’s more dignity in it, and certainly more money”
Click Roll Boom ”in the bad old days I used to get wasted. Now I just let the energy take me”
GBHBL ”a unique artist who really embodies the ‘do what you want’ mantra that most musicians wish they had”
Maximum Volume ”strange but wonderfully compelling”
Viking In The Wilderness ”garage rock explored with a more contemporary sound and expression”
interviewed by Ringmaster Reviews – ”I’ve tried lots of avenues. Sleep deprivation, automatic writing, improvising, not improvising, being calm, being angry, taking stuff out, adding it in…”
interviewed by The Harvest Network – ”[AI is] like a nice warm cup of liquidised cat shit”
TO THE OUTER WORLD album & singles, 2021
Sonic Shocks album notes (track by track)
V13: eight albums that changed my life “from epic classical to groundbreaking heavy metal, Matt Finucane’s record collection is as eclectic as the music on his new album”
Viking In The Wilderness “a simmering subtle darkness”
Music in Belgium “still scandalously ignored and deserves a much wider exposure”
Sonic Shocks “powerful collection of tracks […] and as always it’ll be intriguing to see where he goes next”
Trust The Doc on Envy The Birds “an excellent and slightly trippy track”
Whisperin’ and Hollerin’ “sees Matt push beyond his previous limits and embrace a more adventurous, exploratory approach, without losing any of his distinctive character”
Muso Muso interview “Maybe I’m better off as a complete cult”
Plugged in Brighton on Something That Can Help “It’s a cliche to talk about singers who wear their hearts on their sleeves but in Matt’s case, you can add all the other major organs”