Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs sings and plays guitar.
She is infinitely lucky to play with assemblies of dear friends including: Aaron Morgan, Paul Cherwick, Katy Davidson, Justin Pinkerton.Our first full-length album, Human Like A House was released on January 30th, 2007.
Inter-reviews:
KQED and corresponding Mixtape.
Live:
SN + R at Fools Foundation
We released our first EP in the Summer of 2005. It's called Six Songs and here's what some said about it:
"San Francisco Bay Area acoustic duo THE FINCHES (CAROLYN PENNYPACKER RIGGS and AARON MORGAN) have been wowing local audiences with their endearing songs of fantasy architecture, filial love, and travel anxiety. Six Songs will disarm even the toughest of souls, as Pennypacker effortlessly charms any crowd within miles of her deceptively coy approach to musical storytelling. Unabashedly influenced by Leonard Cohen and Francois Hardy ("The House with Two Front Doors" borrows a melody from Hardy's "La Maison Ou J'ai Grandi"), the band brilliantly tread that fine line between pop and folk. On this their first release, Pennypacker already threatens to join that rare club of songwriters, from Vashti Bunyan to Tracy Thorn (Marine Girls) to Mirah, who manage to stay both sweet and poetically mature, warmly innocent but never crossing the line into sugary tweeness. Packaged in beautiful fold-up cardstock packaging, the cover is letter-pressed with a linocut drawn by Pennypacker herself. Look out for the Finches now out on tour with those love-lovers Whysp (ex-Lowdown), playing selected shows with Phil Elvrum's Mt. Eerie."
-- Midheaven Mailorder
Worldly Interweb! Read an extensive review in French, or with the hilarious automatic-translation option at www.derives.net.
You can read the first review of Six Songs at uncommonfolk.net
From SCTAS ("Slightly Confusing To A Stranger")
Pick of the Week at Sacramento News and Review
Live:
12.08.05 show with Calvin Johnson and Tender Forever in The East Bay Express