*The Following Press Release Was Issued By Earshot Media*
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| FENCES Release New Video for ‘My Pale King’ |
| +++++ “‘Wide Eyed Elk Ensemble’ is a vivid, poetic encounter with a talent operating on his own terms…”- CLASH “…breezy, rustic, big-hearted indie folk songs that should appeal to fans of Lord Huron, Manchester Orchestra and other stuff of that ilk.”- Brooklynvegan “….rustic, folky and achingly, emotionally beautiful.”- Riff Magazine “The five-song indie folk rock release mixes surprising modern pop elements with his mellow sound.”- Orange County Register +++++ |
| Singer-songwriter Christopher Mansfield (aka FENCES) has launched a new video for ‘My Pale King’ taken from his latest five-track EP ‘Wide Eyed Elk Ensemble.’ Watch it HERE. The EP is built on the sounds of his previous effort, the critically acclaimed LP ‘Failure Sculptures,’ which was released as an expanded deluxe edition earlier this year. Mansfield says of ‘My Pale King’ “I wrote My Pale King while living in a cabin in Big Sur. I would watch the deer drink from a plastic bucket I filled with sink water. The song was a hat tip to Indian Giver, David Foster Wallace and my daughter. The never ending brigade is about angels. The trouble with angels is that you can’t always see them. So the song is really about trust falling into feathers” Over the years, the musician has caught the attention of and collaborated with a diverse group of fellow artists including Tegan & Sara, Macklemore, Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla, Jacquire King (Of Monsters and Men), Nile Marr (son of Johnny Marr), Cedric Bixler-Zavala (The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In) and Ryan Lewis, while touring with the likes of Against Me! and Hellogoodbye. WATCH FENCES’ RECENT PASTE MAGAZINE SESSION HERE. |
| STREAM “WIDE EYED ELK ENSEMBLE” HERE |
 Photo: Adam DeGross |
| Praise for Fences: “…further testament to Christopher Mansfield’s deeply emotional and expressive song-writing. Writers such as Mansfield remind us that pop can still be spiritual, sublime, its expressive qualities capable of elevating the spirits and challenging our preconceptions about art of any kind.”- PopMatters “We were friends before we made any music together,” we have a lot of things in common – our vices and our demons and our art, the things that we’re good at and our shortcomings.” – Macklemore “Don’t let the fact that he looks like an extra from ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ fool you because Chris Mansfield is a pretty sensitive dude. He doesn’t follow anyone on Twitter, so he’s infinitely more productive and prolific than you are. Sorry.”- Noisey “…alongside down-and-out saints with vigour like Townes Van Zandt, Elliott Smith and The Cure, Mansfield sears vivid scenes rooted in hardship, drinking, despair and fear of losing love into the psyche…..yet at all times, he does so with a hand on his pop pistol, ready to blast completely into smithereens what, on paper, would look like just another hushed singer-songwriter on a downer” –Drowned In Sound “As an artist, Mansfield is comfortable in many lanes. He can croon with an acoustic or glide on a house beat or singe on a hip-hop track hook. His talent is malleable…”- American Songwriter “The artistic alter ego for Seattle-based musician and songwriter Christopher Mansfield, Fences’ folk music is heartrending and raw” – Atwood Magazine “Haunting in its simplicity…teeming with emotionally charged inflections reminiscent of Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard.”- Earmilk |
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