The brand new album options contributions from Felix Pastorius, Jeremiah Inexperienced (Modest Mouse), Wesley Schultz (The Lumineers) and Ryan Lewis (Macklemore & Lewis).
Fences new single and video, ‘Skinny Legs’ is out now. Stream and obtain ‘Skinny Legs’ right here.
Fences has introduced a brand new album titled ‘Brilliant Soil,’ due out later this summer season.
The primary single, ‘Skinny Legs’ is out in the present day, and is accompanied by a music video directed by Spencer Sease.
“I felt empowered by different folks,” says Christopher Mansfield, forward of the discharge of ‘Brilliant Soil,’ his new full-length album underneath the Fences moniker. “I didn’t really feel alone. I felt completely happy.”
The LP, due in August, spotlights not solely a time of monumental adjustments within the artist’s life however maybe his most cohesive album up to now.
For the album as an entire Mansfield assembled what he refers to as his “dream band” with lifelong pal Felix Pastorius (son of Jaco Pastorius) on bass and Jeremiah Inexperienced (Modest Mouse) on drums. Wesley Schultz (The Lumineers) and Ryan Lewis (Macklemore & Lewis) additionally add vocals and manufacturing respectively. Mansfield’s spouse, Maxine, additionally seems.
“I simply wished it to sound cohesive,” he says. “With my earlier full-length albums, I’d recorded them in several states with completely different producers, completely different drummers, completely different all the pieces. For this, we had a room for a particular period of time. That’s it. It was like, ‘Lock the door and don’t kill one another.’”
He provides, “I wished to get folks whose sound I liked in order that if I wished to, I might simply depart and I might belief that they’d do their finest. Jeremiah has an ideal pure circulate to his taking part in and Felix is much more technically proficient than his father in some regards. I feel he’s one of the best bass participant on this planet proper now.” For guitar he turned to Thomas Hunter of The Heavy. “I wasn’t being grasping however wished to get one of the best gamers—it was like choosing a soccer staff in class. It was a pleasure.”
Mansfield additionally turned a father in the course of the cycle for the album.
“As a lot as you’re feeling such as you’ve equipped for it, irrespective of how a lot you’ve ready you actually do not know what it’s really like,” he says. “I feel I used to be blissfully unaware of the magnitude earlier than. However there was this stunning factor about my spouse being round and realizing that my daughter might hear the music. All the gorgeous issues that you’d suppose I’d suppose.”
Watch the music video for ‘Skinny Legs’ beneath and discover out extra about Fences and their music on-line on Fb, Instagram, Twitter, and Enci Information’ official web site.
