Official video from the single "Thanks For Calling" off of SONOIO's final album "Fine."
Personal, layered and complex, “Fine” achieves greatness as both a singular example of deep and inspiring pop music, and as the final album - the closing chapter in the story of SONOIO
Out now on LP/CD/Digital: bit.ly/SonoioFine
As activity with Nine Inch Nails, the demands of touring, and his other solo endeavors began to pick up, production on the third and final SONOIO installment was delayed. In 2014 however, after years of silence, SONOIO posted the single and video for the song “Thanks For Calling” exclusively on sonoio.org and quickly reignited rumors and hope for the release of the third album.
Four years have passed since then, and Dais Records is proud to announce - finally - the exclusive release of SONOIO’s third and final effort: Fine, and the official re-release of the single and video for “Thanks For Calling”. Fine is the first SONOIO full length to be released on vinyl, with art direction and package design by Caspar Newbolt and photography by Matt Sundin.
Opening track “I Don’t Know” and the mournful follow-up “Left” set the stage for the emotional ride, with reverbed synths over an acute mid-tempo beat - accompanied by astonishingly strong vocals, which those accustomed to Cortini’s instrumental works will likely be happily shocked by. Next, the aforementioned single “Thanks For Calling” starts slow, building over 4 minutes with Cortini whispering, speaking, building strength into the gorgeously delivered line: “falling to pieces” before the track explodes into a driving anthem.
The album then quite literally descends into “Pieces”, an instrumental effort that brings to mind Aphex’s Ambient Works - a submerged lullaby of electronics before re-emerging into “Vitamin D”, an energetic and pulsing track that snaps the listener to attention. A pattern of smart and intentional pacing and rhythm becomes apparent, as the listener is taken down through moody, effective dirges (“Bad Habit”, “Under The Sea”) and lifted up into a surprising guitar piece “What’s Before”. “I Don’t Know (Coda)” is the album’s effective and final track, with Cortini’s vocals muffled and echoing “I’m in the mirror, let me in….” before emerging loud and clear above a wash of howling synth*
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DIRECTED BY
matt sundin
caspar newbolt
PRODUCER
katharine o’brien
CO-PRODUCERS
cyrus makarechian
alessandro cortini
STARRING
marshall allman
daveigh chase
SUPPORTING CAST
jeff brown
andrew calder
sophie hannah
chris mclaughlin
sam james velde
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
monika lenczewska
EDITORS
mirela mureshan
matt sundin
KEY MAKEUP
sonia cabrera
COSTUME DESIGNER
anais castaldi
CASTING
brad gilmore
1ST AD
shaun o’banion
STUNT COORDINATOR
jeff barnett
chris mclaughlin
CAMERA OPERATOR / MOVI RIG
hugh bell
B CAMERA OPERATOR
kobi zaig
UNDERWATER CAMERA OPERATOR / DIT
sam mcconville
1st AC
richard moriarty
dan venti
2nd AC
arlena muller
julia salcedo
GAFFER
vincent pogoda
SWING
raman dlamini
kelsey talton
SET DECORATORS
kristin flammio
danna lee ballard
COSTUME ASSISTANT
hannah greenblatt
MAKEUP ARTIST
jenn rose
ASSISTANT MAKEUP ARTIST
caroline treacy
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
matt thompson
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