Frances Luke Accord and the beautiful folk indie voyage of "Sunnyside"

 

"one day, poppa one day I will blow this world away"

The title track, "Sunnyside", from Frances Luke Accord's upcoming EP, dropping on all digital formats on March 19th, has a sense of wanderlust, of whimsy, of gravitas, of the worth of a long journey. To me, there is a magical sense within the drones of sounds that made me think in some ways of Irish folk tunes (and tales). As Francis Luke Accord, Nicholas Gunty and Brian Powers always mesmerize with their emotional harmonies that, at time, feel like one voice but on "Sunnyside" they frame their tenderness within sweeping textures and depth added by contributions from Katie Van Dusen (violin), Luke Jackson (electric guitar, drums), and Don Mitchell (harmonium, production assistance) of Darlingside. The resulting soundscape feels elegantly deep and so exquisitely beautiful.

-Robb Donker Curtius

Frances Luke Accord · Sunnyside

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When Nicholas Gunty and Brian Powers put their songs and their voices together, there is a delicate and powerful magic that commands the room to attention. The duo is known as Frances Luke Accord, and they are what NPR’s Mountain Stage calls “the definition of lean-in music.” Their soulful branch of indie-folk is orchestrated with spare and sophisticated acoustic threads woven into a lush backdrop for their intimate melodies. Rich, up-close tenor harmonies lend their timeless songwriting an urgency that honors the Simon & Garfunkel comparisons but pushes beyond into the world of Bon Iver, Jose Gonzalez, and progressive folk music.

Frances Luke Accord, indie folk, folk, Americana, singer songwriter, "Sunnyside" EP