“Since their debut album in 2009 The Mojo Fins have cranked up the epic levels; these songs soar with anthemic confidence. The production stewardship of Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers & Idlewild) truly bring the songs to life, juggling crescendos of analogue guitar warmth with live strings and keys against towering vocal harmonies. The tunes are there, the hooks are there - you’re unlikely to hear a more accomplished and self-assured album this year. The Mojo Fins just have to transfer it to a national audience, and that can only be a matter of time.” - (NC) Brighton Source.

The Mojo Fins are currently back in Rockfield Studios with producer Dave Eringa recording four brand new tracks for an EP release in early May to be showcased at Canadian Music Week in March this year. A new single ‘Lighthouse’, taken from the album ‘Shake The Darkness’ will be available February 19th 2012.

The Mojo Fins create melodic, rhapsodic, evocative and unforgettable rock that traverses the poles of emotion and speaks to the soul and on many occasions have been likened to bands such as; Elbow, REM and early Coldplay. Crafting electrifying, moving and uplifting songs that revive and build upon many of the lost qualities of great British guitar music. Soaring harmonies, needlework guitar lattices, towering arrangements and a vintage sound palette of valve compressors, Rhodes keys and live strings.

Yet things could have been so different when The Mojo Fins’ vocalist and guitarist Jon Chandler was tragically killed in a road accident in May 2007 only days before the release of their first single ‘Pinata Face’. There were many who wondered if the band would continue but Stephen Brett (vocals/guitar), Steve Hoile (bass/keys) and Dave Russell (drums), did not. They knew it had to because music, like friendship, transcends death and the dream that four school mates once swore they’d make a reality lives on. Several months later, galvanised by the addition of a new member (friend and guitarist, Adam Luke Atkins) the Brighton based quartet set about recording and producing their debut album ‘The Sound That I Still Hear’, which culminated in an exhilarating performance at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival as one of the finalists in Q Magazine’s ‘Emerging Talent Competition’, followed by the recording of a live EP (The Mojo Fins: Live At The Red Room) featuring acoustic versions of the albums more poignant songs.

Talk to The Mojo Fins and you’ll get to know a band in love with music, rather than the celebrity it can bring, their devotion to the art inspired by the likes of Elliot Smith, Ryan Adams and The Shins. Listen to their ever-expanding repertoire and you’ll hear songs composed with painstaking care and attention to detail, coruscating guitars, intricate rhythms and driving bass bound together by the unifying force of melody, so often lost to haircuts and swagger or within walls of noise.

Further inspired by what they had achieved and the emergence of a solid and devoted following through various headline performances (at Brighton’s Duke of York’s Cinema, Komedia and Pavilion Theatre), The Mojo Fins embarked on their most prolific period, finally completing more than 40 songs which were then submitted to a number of major producers both in the UK and America. The eventual outcome is ‘Shake the Darkness’, 12 tracks which reflect their wide musical tastes and showcase their continuing refinement of melody and lyrical inventiveness.

With their incredible second album ‘Shake the Darkness’ completed and a new EP on the horizon, The Mojo Fins are on track to set 2012 alight. United in the spirit that brought them together they find themselves today on the brink of a new stage, as excited, as bold, as exceptional as ever.

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