We're pleased to welcome back Sean Flinn & The Royal We for their 3rd appearance at Cebu!
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In every Northwest tribe, a member is singled out to hold wealth of the season. He accumulates the community's bounty through the warmest months of the year. When the cold comes, he returns what he has been given or sets it afire for all his kin to witness. In Portland, Sean Flinn holds this point.
Born in the shadow of Mount Shasta, Sean Flinn spent his childhood haunting Whiskeytown Lake and the woods of the northwest with his... twin sister. From his earliest days, he absorbed the incongrruous and eclectic sounds issuing from his parents' stereo, and translated their disparate harmonies through the voice of an old acoustic guitar borrowed from a friend. The voice only grows adept and more idiosyncratic with age.
Still today, he haunts the rooms of lovers and friends, family and whiskey bars with a pen and black notebook. that well-worn guitar, and a steady eye on the story. Sean Flinn is a collector, an archiver of person, place, lyric, chord and emotion.
Write Me A Novel, his first full length album with his backing band, The Royal We, is his redistribution of stories accumulated, in the most literal sense, a record from a season of richness. Here, he holds up every picture, every face, every hand that has fed him. He points them out by name or allusion and thanks them graciously. And then, he sets his record aflame for all to witness.
BAEBLE MUSIC - Flinn already haunts "the rooms of lovers and friends, family and whiskey bars", but it may not be long before he is haunting your iTunes as well.
ONE TRACK MIND - Like a Siren on the rocks, Write Me A Novel is the sort of album which slowly draws listeners in without them ever realizing they've already been overtaken.
MAKE MUSIC NOT BABIES - "Patient Heart" is the prettiest song I've heard in a while.
BUZZINE - "Sean Flinn & The Royal We have produced as good a debut as anyone could wish to produce. Write Me A Novel takes a broad range of subject matter and personalizes proceedings that inspires the desire to become more familiar. It's a contagious offering and it feels like an event. If you're the kind of person who likes doing favors for friends, you'll introduce this album after parties or on road trips. No one can be disappointed; this is the good gear."..
WILLAMETTE WEEK - "Flinn shows shades of M. Ward's eclecticism and the Shaky Hands' jangle-pop. It probably goes without saying, then, that Write Me a Novel is a very Portlandy record. That's a good thing."
OREGON MUSIC NEWS - Since I first heard the warm ukulele strums that open the stunning "Patient Heart," I have listened to Write Me A Novel hundreds of times.
