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 ‘Vibrant Soil,’ due out later this summer time.
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 ‘Vibrant Soil,’ his new full-length album below the Fences moniker. “I didn’t really feel alone. I felt completely satisfied.”
The LP, due in August, spotlights not solely a time of monumental modifications within the artist’s life however maybe his most cohesive album to this point.
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 numerous states with completely different producers, completely different drummers, completely different all the things. For this, we had a room for a selected 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 cherished in order that if I wished to, I may simply go away and I may belief that they’d do their greatest. Jeremiah has an amazing pure movement to his enjoying and Felix is much more technically proficient than his father in some regards. I believe he’s the very best bass participant on the earth proper now.” For guitar he turned to Thomas Hunter of The Heavy. “I wasn’t being grasping however wished to get the very best gamers—it was like choosing a soccer group in class. It was a pleasure.”
Mansfield additionally grew to become a father in the course of the cycle for the album.
“As a lot as you are feeling such as you’ve equipped for it, irrespective of how a lot you’ve ready you actually don’t know what it’s really like,” he says. “I believe I used to be blissfully blind to the magnitude earlier than. However there was this stunning factor about my spouse being round and realizing that my daughter may hear the music. All the attractive issues that you’d suppose I’d suppose.”
Watch the music video for ‘Skinny Legs’ under and discover out extra about Fences and their music on-line on Fb, Instagram, Twitter, and Enci Data’ official web site.
