Finom

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Finom (formerly OHMME) is Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart—“the Heart of Chicago’s Music Community.”(Noisey) Formed in 2014, they hail from Chicago's improvisational and experimental music scene where they already have a half-dozen albums from previous projects under their belts and an impressive resumé of collaborative credits (from Jeff Tweedy of Wilco to Chance the Rapper).

Early in their careers but already seasoned performers, their new project, "Fantasize Your Ghost" is a guitar-heavy experiment overlaid by inventive vocal harmonies. "Cunningham’s smoky croon complements Stewart’s higher-register coo." Think Amber Coffman and Angel Deradoorian-era Dirty Projectors—but quietly more imaginative and compositionally more eccentric. Their instrumental style amalgamates the aggressive and the meditative, sometimes manifesting in shimmeringly hypnotic 2-minute bangers and other times coming across in the form of 7-minute stretches of moody atmospherics, wafting guitars and piercing feedback. In the studio and on the stage, Finom’s eclecticism merges into a sound that is cohesive, daring and distinctly their own.

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The three players in Chicago’s Moontype orbited each other for years before they came in phase. Bodies of Water, their debut album for local label Born Yesterday, documents travel, insecurity, friendship, and the titular element—all of which are representative of the band members’ strong connection to place and to one another. “Being rooted in the landscape became important to me while studying geology, which completely changed how I think about the world,” offers songwriter, vocalist and bassist Margaret McCarthy of the album’s central themes. The arrangements themselves feel like open-hearted negotiations; sparse fingerpicking gives way to saturated tube-screaming as naturally as the changing of tides. Over twelve tracks, Moontype revels in the woozy concoction of its many influences, but always lands on punchy hooks, shifting between arrangements both spacious and mystifying without abandoning their conversational warmth.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

DC9 Nightclub, 1940 9th St NW, Washington, United States