Fink is certainly not the first artist to move from making hip hop and electronic beats to a more traditional rock approach, but while results from the likes of RJD2, Money Mark and Everlast haven’t always been on par with their previous work, Fin Greenall, as he’s known to family and friends, gets it exactly right.

The rhythmic acoustic blues he’s making these days is powerful stuff and Distance and Time, his latest album for Ninja Tune, is a memorably forceful break up chronicle. Recently in Chicago on the tail end of a US tour with the band he also calls Fink, Greenall and company played to a much larger crowd at Schuba’s than during their free show a year back at Empty Bottle.

Backed by Guy Whittaker on bass and Tim Thornton on drums, Greenall performed …