Album review
fantasy of a broken heart have dropped a new song, ‘Loss’, taken from their upcoming debut album Feats of Engineering. It follows lead single ‘Ur Heart Stops’. Give it a listen below.
Discussing the new song, the band’s Bailey Wollowitz said in a statement:
There’s always a tension in songwriting between simplicity and excess. Especially in the home digital recording era, it’s hard to ignore an anxious tugging at the endless possibilities of overdubbing and arrangement. Why not put a string section on every song? In these moments of preoccupation, I often came back to the first few Unknown Mortal Orchestra records, which have always inspired me as pieces of work that achieve sonic maximalism with very minimal arrangements; a perfect hybrid between the euphoric peaks of the later Beatles catalogue and the roughest sounding Jay Reatard demo. The song Loss started as a word on a piece of paper and a desire to capture a complex feeling in a simple way. Memory loss, hearing loss, loss of love, loss of a loved one. Getting lost in yourself. This was the first song demoed for the album, and was a turning point for realizing that there was nowhere to hide with being honest about this stuff. By the final mix we had stripped back the layers and left it as it was meant to be: a little song with a lot to say. We also lost some of the drum stems along the way.
Feats of Engineering comes out September 27 on Dots Per Inch.
