London’s Finn Doherty releases his debut EP, if you’re bored of this city, mixed and mastered by Lavar Bullard. Over seven tracks, the artist explores desire, self-destruction, and the search for identity amidst the complexities of urban life and personal relationships.
At a crucial time in his life, Finn’s transitional period is encapsulated in a long night of romance, excitement, introspection, and longing. Six of the EP tracks also take a visual route with music videos translating Finn’s vision into an even more tangible format. As a whole, the EP will take the listener on a whirlwind of emotions and stories of queerness, where Finn aims to authentically represent and give voice to his bisexuality.
As Finn himself explains, “‘if you’re bored of this city’ is a project about desire, self-destruction, and the search for identity. It was inspired by a relationship that was complicated by an internal exploration of my own sexual identity, and the music that soundtracked that experience. The EP follows the experience of the city of dreams becoming the city of nightmares, a city that became the playing field for reckless behaviour and a longing for something more, a desire for excitement, and a distraction from the complexities of my own self-discovery”
In keeping with Finn’s ethos to create an inclusive space of authentic and genuine connection, the EP’s focus track ‘Your Love Won’t Take Me Home’, showcases Finn’s more vulnerable side. With crystalline precision, this intimate acoustic track captures the moment when you realise that things won’t work out. Finn portrays this start-of-the-end with poised emotional intelligence, providing an ardent anchor point in the EP.
Reflecting on this essential EP single, Finn says, “‘Your Love Won’t Take Me Home’ serves as the acceptance, the realisation that some love remains unrequited beyond the realms of simple pleasure. Falling for someone who will never reciprocate is one of the most universal experiences as a queer individual, and this song speaks directly to that feeling. It feels like a long car ride home. A walk in the rain under soft orange street lights.
This is the first song that I wrote for the EP, and became the glue that bound it all together. It became easy to mould a whole project around it once I realised that this was the most sincere sentiment of any song I’d ever written, and spoke most truly of an experience that almost tore me apart.”
Elsewhere, Finn takes a more adventurous approach, melding together pop, indie, and electronic elements as heard in ‘Call It Off’, ‘Figure It Out’, ‘KMU’, and ‘Drop My Guard’. His youthful approach allows him to delve into themes of lust, heartache, solitude, and sexuality.
With his debut EP, if you’re bored of this city, Finn Doherty presents himself as a fiercely driven, self-made artist to the UK and beyond.