Product Description

Debut album from young Irish folk singer-songwriter. Regan's mysterious, poetic lyrics, languid melodies, accomplished musicianship and warm, homespun production style - he playedand produced everything on the album himself - have alreadyseen him compared to Nick Drake and Bob Dylan and earned him a US deal with Lost Highway (home of Ryan Adams). Understated and slow-burning but ultimately rewarding, the album hasbecome a critical favourite and includes the single 'Be Good Or Be Gone'.

Track Listing

1. Be Good Or Be Gone
2. Underwood Typewriter
3. Hunter's Map
4. Hey Rabbit
5. Black Water Child
6. Put A Penny In The Slot
7. Cowshed
8. Snowy Atlas Mountains
9. Noah (Ghost In A Sheet)
10. End Of History
11. Abacus
12. Bunker Or Basement

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4506 in Music
• Released on: 2006-08-07
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
From the delicate and deceptively intricate "Be Good or Be Gone" that inaugurates Fionn Regan’s debut album, The End of History, it’s apparent that his is a talent not to be ignored. Recalling any number of folkish predecessors--Bob Dylan, Jose Gonzalez, Nick Drake--Regan’s finger-picked guitar work and warm, Damien Rice-esque vocals flow through this entire project like meandering, golden streams. Mixing winsome melodies with emotive chords and quasi-poetic lyricism, Regan straddles the classic folk sound of the 60s and the contemporary neo-folk scene with bristling aplomb. Unlike many so called ‘new folk’ heroes though, Regan keeps his approach simple, varying his songs not with electronic beats or acidic guitar squalls but light embellishments such as brooding strings (see the dark, Gonzalez-esque "Hunter's Map") and subtle backing vocals (see "Black Water Child"). Though skeletal, Regan’s songs create a dreamy, nostalgic ambience that successfully eschew cliché. Intimate and contemporary, universal and classic, The End of History is a triumphant and highly accessible first outing. --Paul Sullivan

Customer Reviews

A drop of the soft stuff !

As you may have gathered from other reviews ,this is a pretty neat debut from the young Irish singer-songwriter. It's not exactly Blood on the Tracks or Five leaves left but it does what it sets out to do. Wrap the listener in a warm melancholic aural embrace. Sharp guitar playing,workmanlike vocals and decent lyrics and production values.
There's so many singer-songwriters out there at the moment from both sides of the Atlantic. Fionn Regan keeps his head above this often worthy but dull ocean of talent by virtue of his undoubted quality.

BEAUTIFUL AND UTTERLY BRILLIANT
BEST ALBUM I'VE HEARD ALL YEAR, NEXT TO RADIOHEAD'S NEW ONE. BETTER THAN JOSE GONZALEZ'S NEW PLATE THAT'S FOR GOD DAMN SURE.

Stand back and watch Fionn Regan soar!
I first heard of Fionn when I saw his sublime live performance of 'Be Good Or Be Gone' on TV at The Mercury Prize awards ceremony 2007. I bought the album and was SO dissapointed when I listened to it for the first time. I left it on my shelf for a week or so, then I gave it another listen. Gradually I've come to love it so much untill now - here I am writing my first amazon review teeling you it is TRULY BRILLIANT! I think it's just SO different from anything else, (and I have a LOT of hugely varied singer-songwriter music in my collection) that it took me a while to adjust! His tender mastery of the guitar is awesome (as a guitarist of 4 years I enviously know!). His voice is unstrained, natural and tender with a very subtle dark undercurrent. The songs really make you think but in a pleasurably inspired, non-manic way. If there's any justice in the world, he's just gonna be HUGE! And he deserves it!