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Chicago duo Finom, formerly Ohmme, was started by Macie Stewart and Sima Cunningham in 2014.
Both artists are trained as classical pianists and were familiar with the scope of sonic spaces keyboards had to offer but, according to Stewart, "since we were interested in experimenting and creating something different from what we had both done in the past, we chose guitar as our outlet for this band. We wanted to create parameters for ourselves that were both new and uncomfortable to force ourselves into a different creative space”.
OHHME have been touring both nationally and internationally since January 2016, including playing Pitchfork Music Festival in 2016. They have toured with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Iron & Wine, The Joy Formidable, Tortoise, and The Ophelias. In 2016, OHMME added drummer Matt Carroll, who also worked with Cunningham and Stewart in the band Marrow. By late 2021, OHMME had expanded its touring band.
OHHME released their first single on November 13, 2015, a self-titled EP in 2017, and two full-length albums: Parts in 2018 and Fantasize Your Ghost in 2020. OHMME have vocal and instrumental credits on projects of other musicians, including Chance the Rapper, Thor Harris, Richard Thompson, Twin Peaks, Ken Vandermark, V.V. Lightbody (Vivian McConnell), and Whitney.
OHMME have been dubbed "the band at the heart of Chicago's music community," by Noisey. After OHMME played a Tiny Desk Concert spot for NPR, Bob Boilen (TDC curator and producer of All Songs Considered) said that it was among the best performances of the series.
Fantasize Your Ghost, OHMME's second full-length album, was released on June 5, 2020 by Joyful Noise Recordings. In October 2020, OHMME released a concert film of the Fantasize Your Ghost material, plus two songs from a new single, with additional musicians Nnamdï Ogbonnaya (drums), Ruby Parker and Quinn Tsan (backing vocals), and V.V. Lightbody (backing vocals and flute), but without Matt Carroll; the film was recorded at and subsequently livestreamed (via YouTube) from Constellation in Chicago.
In December 2021 in Chicago, Cunningham, Stewart, and Alex Grelle inaugurated "Full Bush", a theatrical tribute to Kate Bush, written by Grelle and Jesse Morgan Young.
The duo announced in August 2022 that they had changed their name from OHMME to Finom, for legal reasons, and that they would embark on a nine-date tour of the eastern United States the following month.
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