Maxine Funke - Home Fi
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Our love for Maxine Funke is long established, so we're grateful for the arrival of these two recent reissues we've imported from Feeding Tube in the US. Home-Fi is a perfectly named record, and even more so, a perfect way of describing the music Funke makes. Songs seem to fall out of her, downhome and fragile, hushed acoustic fragments barely hiding some profound observation, potentially captured by accident. They could have come in the window on a breeze just as much be a product of divine inspiration, so natural and effortless are they. Maxine Funke is one of those artists whom once you're into, you need to own all the records, but for the sake of accuracy I should add that Home-Fi is a collection of recordings first compiled to cassette to coincide with a 2018 Australian tour, and Silk an 'album proper' from around the same period that completes her fabric-themed trilogy (see Lace and Felt). The distinction is immaterial, really, since if you have one, you really need both. As I've said previously with Funke's music, I'm not going to recommend one over another, because they're all parts of the same expression, and together an essential reflection of why Funke is a maverick outlier of rare esteem.
