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title: "Dear Abby"

meaning: "Rees Finley single (2017); Luke Walton guitars; recorded and produced by FEiN at the Tiny Giant-era Rees Finley session lane."

year: 2017
release: "Songs 1-5"
releaseType: "EP"

artist: "Rees Finley"

role: production
productionRoles: "Guitars · recording (FEiN)"
waltonCredit: false

credits: "SoundCloud + YouTube MV description: written by Rees Finley; recorded and produced by FEiN; guitars by Luke Walton; drums and percussion by Brandon Woodward; bass by Brian Robert Jones; mixed by Keith Armstrong at Pietown Sound; mastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering."

officialVideo: "https://youtu.be/hlUnCOPWw2s"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/songs-1-5-ep/1269175934"
bandcamp: "https://reesfinley.bandcamp.com/track/dear-abby"

isrc: QMAAK1748494
isrcSource: spotify

press:
  - outlet: "Rees Finley — Dear Abby (SoundCloud credits)"
    url: "https://soundcloud.com/rees-finley/dear-abby"
  - outlet: "Rees Finley — Dear Abby (YouTube MV credits)"
    url: "https://youtu.be/hlUnCOPWw2s"
  - outlet: "Songs 1-5 EP (Apple Music)"
    url: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/songs-1-5-ep/1269175934"
  - outlet: "Songs 1-14 (Bandcamp)"
    url: "https://reesfinley.bandcamp.com/album/songs-1-14"

themes: ["Rees Finley", "FEiN", "Tiny Giant", "USC Thornton", "2017", "session"]

draft: false
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**Rees Finley** — neurotic alt-pop from the USC Thornton orbit. [Dear Abby](https://youtu.be/hlUnCOPWw2s) landed on the five-song [**Songs 1-5**](/catalog/#credited-work) EP (**August 4, 2017**) and later on the fourteen-track [**Songs 1-14**](https://reesfinley.bandcamp.com/album/songs-1-14) collection (**March 8, 2019**).

Public credits on [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/rees-finley/dear-abby) and the [official music video](https://youtu.be/hlUnCOPWw2s): **recorded and produced by FEiN**; **guitars by Luke Walton**; **drums and percussion by Brandon Woodward**. Same Tiny Giant / FEiN lane as [Hate To See You](/songs/hate-to-see-you/) (recording) and [American Champagne](/songs/american-champagne/) (guitars + FEiN production).

See [/catalog/#credited-work](/catalog/#credited-work) · [/music/fein/#collaboration](/music/fein/#collaboration) · [Rees Finley artist site](https://www.reesfinley.com/)

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