Campfires Shares New Track "Jackal's Maw" From Forthcoming "Fare Trax" LP
Today Campfires shares a new cut from forthcoming 5th albnum Fare Trax due out August 30th on Fire Talk. Recorded in a rented house on the Oregon coast in 2018, "Fare Trax" is a collection of songs distilled from several years of playing and recording throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Jeff Says
"This album, just like every other Campfires album, isn’t perfect. Campfires is a protest and a refuge against all the crushing commodified perfection that we all have to deal with every day. It’s a place to celebrate the fact that something doesn’t have to be perfect to be great. Influenced by some of the poppier Velvets stuff “Jackal’s Maw” is specifically about us killing the planet, and how modern man is sickeningly disconnected from ancient truths of nature."
“Fare Trax” is a new album by Portland Oregon based Campfires. The last one, “Tomorrow, Tomorrow”, came out about 6 years ago, also on Fire Talk. During those 5 years Campfires existed as a live band, watched seasons pass and eventually Jeff and his wife had a baby daughter named Lucy, named after “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. He wrote a song for her while she was still in the womb. Unsurprisingly, that one is called “Lucy’s Song”, and is the last song on this album. Recorded on the Oregon coast a few months ago in a house overlooking the sea and finished in Portland in a practice space that shares a wall with some local favorites, so you can hear Lithics practicing as “Grand Central Song” fades out. The record is an amalgamation of influences, the Kinks are in there and early Byrds with the aesthetics of raw 60s garage and early 80s punk or anorak pop like Television Personalities & stuff from Sarah Records. Some of the poppier Velvets tunes are a touchstone too, then there’s ambient music and experimental tape work. A guazey take on folk music, refined and perfected over 10 years, it’s tenderness is complimented by honest and sincere songwriting presented in all it’s ramshackle glory.
Limited to just 300 copies on Black Vinyl.
