“When somebody asks what I play, I just say psychedelic country music,” says Wellington-based musician Finn Johansson.
Finn writes, records and produces all of his own music and he recorded much of his debut album Two Thousand and Fourteen, while he was living on a boat and tripping around Europe.
To knock out the album, Finn planned to write a song per day and signed up to a website that would donate $100 of his money to a charity he hated if he didn’t go through with it.
But he ended up with about 40 songs, he says, and the best ones made up the album.
“I’m a firm believer that as a songwriter, you have to write maybe 20 shitty songs before you start writing good ones. And then every so often, at intervals, you’ve got to do another 20.
“That’s just my theory though.”
Video shot and edited by Ezra Simons and Gussie Larkin.
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