Finn Askew

Genre-blending U.K. singer and songwriter Finn Askew crafts a giddy, R&B-tinged bedroom pop sound that pairs with youthful ruminations on everyday life. He first drew widespread notice as a teenager through his angsty vocal contribution to the Lost Kings single "Feather" in 2019. Twelve months later, the home-recorded track "Roses" earned him millions of streams once again and later anchored his debut EP, Peach, which arrived in 2021.

Raised in Somerset, England, Askew sampled guitar lessons for a short time yet favored self-taught exploration through repeated trial and error. In a remote area lacking performance spaces, he began writing songs as a preteen and shared several of them, together with assorted covers, across social platforms. He also entered regional youth music contests, steadily building an audience across subsequent years before taking the stage at open mikes in London. By blending elements of alt-R&B, indie rock, pop, emo-rap, and additional styles, he attracted label interest during his late teens. Askew supplied the featured vocal on Lost Kings’ “Feather” in 2019, and Polydor issued his first official single, “Roses,” in 2020—a song he tracked at home on GarageBand using “my £20 microphone” at age 16. At 19, that same recording appeared on the Polydor release Peach in early 2021.