Fran Shares New Track "So Surreal" From Forthcoming Debut LP & Tour Dates !
Today we ‘re sharing another cut form the forthcoming Fran debut “A Private Picture”. The track is accompanied by an excellent Tony Duvall directed video. Maria has this to say about the track…
“"So Surreal is about daydreaming. There’s a huge disconnect between the world we create in our minds and the external world. In our minds, we jump from scene to scene, we see ourselves as more than and less than we are. We are constantly imagining the possibilities of relationships, dreams, jobs, pursuits. You have to be a Buddhist monk to just walk down the street.
Our daydreams have real power and can transform our lives - but they also pull us out of the momentum of what’s happening. This song tries to capture that frenzy of being pulled in too many directions at once, even if it’s all in your head."
Fran On Tour
11/08 - Cincinnati, OH @ The Hub OTR
11/09 - Columbus, OH @ Bourbon St. Bar
11/10 - Buffalo, NY @ Electric Ave.
11/11 - Hudson, NY @ Spotty Dog
11/12 - Middletown, CT @ Mac650
11/13 - Boston, MA @ O'Brien's Pub
11/14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Alphaville
11/15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Anthorna Gallery
11/16 - Washington, DC @ 7 Drum Live
11/17 - Asheville, NC @ Beau Dome
11/18 - Athens, GA @ Flicker Bar
11/19 - Atlanta, GA @ DM
11/20 - Louisville, KY @ Kaiju
11/23 - Chicago, IL @ Hideout Inn
The trick is to make a confession entertaining. A Private Picture, the debut album by Chicago’s Fran, delivers a collection of extremely personal experiences that have been distilled and abstracted to the point that you can see yourself in their imagery, find analogs to your own emotional history in their scenarios –when you hear them, it’s a conversation. It’s therapy, if therapy was allowed to turn you on and make you shake what you got. At its core, Fran’s music is about sharing a truth -–telling it, confessing it, yelling it—in the service of human connection. Or, as Jacobson puts it, “I feel that I am a songwriter for the same reason I wanted to be an actor. I want to tell the truth. I want to challenge myself to get closer and closer to the core of an experience, an emotion- I want to say it, sing it, in a way that says exactly what it is. I cry when I write songs because I am constantly making discoveries, about myself, about the world, about the best way to convey and connect and get closer.”
1st Pressing
200 - Translucent Red Vinyl
300 - Black Vinyl
