Description
Fare Trax is a new album by Portland Oregon based Campfires. The last one, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, came out about 5 years ago, also on Fire Talk. During those 5 years Campfires existed as a live band, watched seasons pass and eventually Jeff and his wife had a baby daughter named Lucy, named after Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. He wrote a song for her while she was still in the womb. Unsurprisingly, that one is called Lucys Song, and is the last song on this album. Recorded on the Oregon coast a few months ago in a house overlooking the sea and finished in Portland in a practice space that shares a wall with some local favorites, so you can hear Lithics practicing as Grand Central Song fades out. The record is an amalgamation of influences, the Kinks are in there and early Byrds with the aesthetics of raw 60s garage and early 80s punk or anorak pop like Television Personalities & stuff from Sarah Records. Some of the poppier Velvets tunes are a touchstone too, then theres ambient music and experimental tape work. A guazey take on folk music, refined and perfected over 10 years, its tenderness is complimented by honest and sincere songwriting presented in all its ramshackle glory.
01. Meanwhile
02. Down Down Down
03. I'll Go Home
04. Grand Central Song
05. Candle Park
06. Errant Blue
07. Fog Bank - Debtor's Prism
08. Knife
09. Jackal's Maw
10. Inside - Slow Losses
11. Earth TV
12. Permanent Peace
13. Lucy's Song
- Internal ID: JITRE
- Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
- Format Detail: 12" Vinyl
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Folk
- Released: 9/13/19