Finneas' success making records with his sister Billie Eilish got him attention. Now, he's ready to make his own statement. Read our review of his full-length solo debut, 'Optimist'
Finneas’s full-length debut shows just how grand his songwriterly ambitions can get, suggesting a tunesmith who’d rather create his generation’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” or pen the nextthan burnish his resume as a Top 40 song doctor.
The bold gestures continue apace. “Only a Lifetime” and “Love is Pain” are piano unburdenings with the satiny sweep of Sam Smith. Elsewhere, Finneas displays his pension for tightly focused romantic conceits, clinging to his lyrical through-threads with heroic dedication on “Hurt Locker” and “Medieval.
There’s lighter fare here too, like the slinky R&B nugget “Happy Now,” which renders the naive self-pity of a new celeb with some offhanded whistling and a chuckle. The playfully predatory “Around My Neck” could almost be read as his riff on Billie’s “Bad Guy,” with its cute goth-candy groove, fingers-up-your-back synth trills, spooky background moans, and Finneas’ mumbled horn-dog come-ons.
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