Findlay Brown

Findlay Brown's ambitious music is intimate, bare, and sensitive. Emotionally-driven and psychedelic, Findlay’s work is a blend of acoustic pop and alternative folk.

Findlay describes his style as “more influenced by sixties music in turn influenced by folk”. Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Band, and cult auteur Jackson C Frank (whose autonomous album was produced by Paul Simon) are his own points of reference. As a DJ he plays psychedelic and krautrock records at clubs and parties on London’s underground.

Growing up in a very small village outside of York, the plan was to join the army and as a child he even took part in Gypsy bare-knuckle boxing contests. One of his friends’ dad was a blacksmith who did a lot of work for the local gypsies and fought with them as well, so they’d put the kids in the ring too.

It was around that time Findlay started getting into music. He and his pals went from “having a few Pet Shop Boys singles to listening to Iron Butterfly, Love, Spirit, Family, Kaleidoscope… really trippy bands alongside lots of krautrock”.

Findlay decided at this time to give singing a go and learn to play the guitar. He then made the move to London and decided to play to his strengths and do something really personal from the forefront of his mind. Inspiration for his debut solo record came from a tempestuous relationship with his long-term Danish girlfriend Marie. He started writing songs to finally win her back after distance had rendered them apart, and he dispatched the songs to Denmark in CD cases packed with dried flowers. Marie has been Findlay’s muse ever since.

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