"I changed your mind half a dozen times but it doesn't even matter..."
Listening to "Channel" by Fair Visions bathed in a post punk 90's synthwave tone with simply gorgeous vox by Ryan Work and I fully expected this young post punk trio to be based out of London. I mean Ryan's vocal aesthetic here reminds me of an old school amalgam of Martin Gore (Depeche Mode), Ian Curtis (Erasure) and Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music). I swear I hear a London lilt in Ryan's evocative croon but Fair Visions is based out of Brooklyn, New York.
"Channel" teases with cinematic synth waves that give way to a lo-fi machine beat. That beat is spatially adorned and soon deep synth bass lines wrap around you as does Ryan's somber croon. There is a very captivating synth break and lovely, hooky guitar lines that add layers of tension and maybe even danger. As I fixated on some of the super interesting musical narratives in play I thought of Gary Numan as well. An amazing track.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/fairvisionss
https://www.instagram.com/fairvisions/
https://fairvisions.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7I8Ln0Su1y5A3qPk6O1t2H?si=_wS-sUICSU6JyaK1FofQ2w&nd=1
Scintillating and audacious, Fair Visions’ debut EP A Way Out (2020) poses the questions that keep you up at night against a crystalline backdrop of electricity. The Brooklyn-based post-punk trio, led by songwriter Ryan Work.
The songs on A Way Out were written in the years following Work’s move to New York, when his discovery of the city’s eternal four-on-the-floor rhythms coincided with a period of soul-searching. Evoking Bowie and New Order with its oscillating moods and lush instrumentation, A Way Out finds its place in the heady dance lineage of New York New Wave.
But the EP’s dreaming heart lies beyond the city, in the longing and what-ifs of the oncoming decade. In its contemplative centerpiece, “Coming On,” Work confesses his fears of burnout and alienation: "Am I faster than I was before? No, I cannot jump higher." Work, a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, teamed up with Greenpoint-based producer Abe Seiferth (LCD Soundsystem, Car Seat Headrest, Susanne Sundfor) and mastered by Joe Lambert (Animal Collective, The National, Sharon Van Etten) to add color and depth to his sketches. Mighty flourishes of synthesizer and splashes of reverb color Work’s gothic vision with adrenaline and a beat that is undeniably alive.
Fair Visions, Post-Punk, Dream Pop, Brooklyn, New York, led by songwriter Ryan Work, "Channel", lush synth work, dreamy guitar hooks, cinematic, 90's new wave, somber romance wave,
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/fairvisionss
https://www.instagram.com/fairvisions/
https://fairvisions.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7I8Ln0Su1y5A3qPk6O1t2H?si=_wS-sUICSU6JyaK1FofQ2w&nd=1
Scintillating and audacious, Fair Visions’ debut EP A Way Out (2020) poses the questions that keep you up at night against a crystalline backdrop of electricity. The Brooklyn-based post-punk trio, led by songwriter Ryan Work.
The songs on A Way Out were written in the years following Work’s move to New York, when his discovery of the city’s eternal four-on-the-floor rhythms coincided with a period of soul-searching. Evoking Bowie and New Order with its oscillating moods and lush instrumentation, A Way Out finds its place in the heady dance lineage of New York New Wave.
But the EP’s dreaming heart lies beyond the city, in the longing and what-ifs of the oncoming decade. In its contemplative centerpiece, “Coming On,” Work confesses his fears of burnout and alienation: "Am I faster than I was before? No, I cannot jump higher." Work, a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, teamed up with Greenpoint-based producer Abe Seiferth (LCD Soundsystem, Car Seat Headrest, Susanne Sundfor) and mastered by Joe Lambert (Animal Collective, The National, Sharon Van Etten) to add color and depth to his sketches. Mighty flourishes of synthesizer and splashes of reverb color Work’s gothic vision with adrenaline and a beat that is undeniably alive.
Fair Visions, Post-Punk, Dream Pop, Brooklyn, New York, led by songwriter Ryan Work, "Channel", lush synth work, dreamy guitar hooks, cinematic, 90's new wave, somber romance wave,
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