Search - Stephanie Finch :: Cry Tomorrow

Cry Tomorrow is a little gem. As are diamonds. A casually stunning love letter to classic song. An album whose sound recalls 'Loaded' era Velvet Underground tunes alongside The
Modern Lovers and Brill Building pop -- but ultimately all revolves around Stephanie Finch s relaxed, cool, confident presence. Backed by The Company Men: Chuck Prophet, Kelley
Stoltz, and Rusty Miller. Cry Tomorrow is an instant classic.


Stephanie s already sung her roots out with Chuck Prophet. And whispered softly with Red House Painters, on 'Songs for a Blue Guitar' with Mark Kozelek. She also popped up as a
cameo on the odd tribute for Joe South, and on the soundtrack to Sign Of God with Jonathan Richman. (If your cable s paid up, you may have seen her playing Judy Collins in HBO s
Chicago 7 biopic).


Stephanie s butter-wouldn t-melt voice (except when topping apple pie) on one hand, and the Company Men s sometimes raucous but always soulful harmonies on the other - lives at the
heart of all Ms. Finch s songs. It gives Cry Tomorrow a quiet urgency and a unique twist.


The CD (with TV noir jacket art) includes some intriguing covers:
an un-released Randy Newman song, She s the One - (a bent out-take from the short-lived but incendiary TV musical Cop Rock) as well as Ms. Finch s take on the Prophet/Alejandro
Escovedo tune Sensitive Boys -- turn your amps up loud ... I need you more than ever now . It evokes the album s subtle intelligence: a heartfelt ballad given an ironic twist, still bathed in
tenderness.


If Cry Tomorrow were a movie, it'd be a Hal Hartley film - with better jokes. And popcorn you d be willing to share.