Singer, songwriter, and producer FINNEAS—best known as the older brother and frequent collaborator of Billie Eilish—returns today with his debut album, Optimist. The LP arrives two years after FINNEAS dropped the Blood Harmony EP.
FINNEAS described the album in an interview with Marvin earlier this year. “To me it’s about the delineation of me as an artist versus myself as a producer and collaborator,” he said. “That has a bit to do with opinion. It’s not always my job to voice my opinion on someone else’s song. It’s my job to support their experience. So my album is very opinionated; it’s my view on life. I want it to be transparent. I wanna be as myself as possible, which is scary and hard to do but necessary.”
Optimist features a handful of previously released tracks, including “What They’ll Say About Us,” a song inspired by COVID-19 and the racial justice protests of 2020; “A Concert Six Months From Now”; and “The 90s.”