Born Ticking by Viewfinder

After disbanding his Edinburgh based noise-rock band and dropping out of university, Joel Burton returned home to London disillusioned. Using cheap synths, an FX unit, and some multi-track cassettes as his compass, he set about re-discovering how to write songs with subtlety and meaning. The result is Viewfinder’s ‘Born Ticking’, a collection of home recordings that manage to seamlessly combine Joel’s love of alt-country, post-punk, minimalist classical, jazz and the golden eras of both 90s indie rockers and 60s songwriters.

The songs on ‘Born Ticking’ come from a place of low energy and rootless inspiration. Joel’s free-associating lyrics wander from childhood memories to ruminations on dying, from interpersonal misfires to (mal)adjusting to adulthood, from struggles with self-love to finding unexpected beauty. The music is ambitiously constructed yet deeply human, managing to combine wilful imperfection with meticulously crafted composition. There is melancholy, sadness, and a rumbling undercurrent of anger – yet creeping out of ‘Born Ticking’s meditative tape-hiss is a profound sense of hope.

Tracklist

1.	Born Ticking	5:06

2.	Instrumental 1	3:37

3.	Money	2:29

4.	Vibrations	4:16

5.	Limit to Forgiveness	3:47

6.	Instrumental 2	1:32

7.	As I Know It	3:21

8.	Instant Moonlight	4:10

9.	Nightime Rider	3:02

Credits

released March 20, 2017

Joel wrote, played and recorded everything on this EP.

Backing vocals by Aidan Lysaght.

Mastered by Josh.

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