Emily Fairlight & The Shifting Sands Announce Joint LP

Even though they “hardly ever intended it to result in an album”, alt-folk songwriter Emily Fairlight and The Shifting Sands‘ Mike McLeod have gone and carried out specifically that, with their joint LP Sun Casts a Shadow owing out on Ōtepoti imprint Fishrider Documents subsequent thirty day period. The two satisfied when McLeod joined Fairlight’s are living band amidst the roll out of her attractive 2018 sophomore album Mother Of Gloom, foremost to a recording session with producer Manny Nieto on the back of a vacation to SXSW. Recorded and blended in LA, then mastered by Thomas Bell all the way down in Dunedin’s charming Port Chalmers, the album’s 1st two singles ‘Head Above’ and ‘Get Via This’ are a profitable blend of the songwriters’ knack for entrancing, melancholy folk. Examine a couple text from Emily Fairlight on the project below, and acquaint on your own with their latest tracks…

“When I first listened to The Shifting Sands, I could listen to a very similar fashion in our songwriting. Then Mike and I started off taking part in and touring collectively, so this colab album felt like a organic development for our musical relationship. I have not accomplished a lot collaborative function, so was delighted to fall into this album almost by error. The songs’ raw, ‘stripped-back’ variety is mildly complicated for us each but hey, that’s the seem of some of my favorite artists, so we hope you’ll appreciate the music in their purest state.”

‘Sun Casts A Shadow’ is out July 8th on streaming solutions, CD, and as a constrained version 12″ LP by means of Fishrider Information.