Finger Eleven Release New Album

FINGER ELEVEN's long-awaited, critically acclaimed sixth studio album (and first in five years), FIVE CROOKED LINES, was released today via The Bicycle Music Company/Concord. The album’s first single, "Wolves and Doors," is burning up the radio airwaves now.

FINGER ELEVEN--Scott Anderson (vocals), James Black (guitar), Rick Jackett (guitar) and Sean Anderson (bass)--chose the album title after they realized that Anderson’s lyrics to the title song had a universal appeal and a particular relevance to the album. “For me it’s symbolic of fortune and luck and how fragile those things are,” Anderson says. “In one instance you’ve got five crooked lines, which in one position is just a heap of bent sticks. But in the right way, they make a star, which is the most glorious shape there is.”

In addition to capturing a primal, authentic feel, FIVE CROOKED LINES incorporates the band’s earliest influences and recontextualizes them in an explosive modern framework. "Absolute Truth" features a turbulent rhythm that tumbles through a vortex of quasi-psychedelic guitars, "Blackout Song" is a feast of fuzzy, wailing riffs, four-to-the-floor beats and euphoric hooks and the title track exits the gate with crashing symbols, a buzzing passage and a counter-melody that keeps the music pumping. From one song to the next, there are no compromises, no concessions and nothing tailor-crafted to suit any outside demands. There's even a seven-minute song, "Come On, Oblivion," a transcendent ebb-and-flow mélange of trippy acoustic and electric instrumentation that's as reminiscent of early The Verve as it is of Pink Floyd.

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Jason Fisher    August 02, 2015