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releases ethereal new single
‘FAITHLESS LOVER’
+ Announces one off
Melbourne show
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Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland New Zealand based noire folk artist Reb Fountain today shares her new captivating single ‘Faithless Lover’, the first new music from Reb Fountain since her 2021 album Iris.
Released on Flying Nun Records, ‘Faithless Lover’ is Reb Fountain at her mesmerizing best. Produced by frequent collaborator and band mate Dave Khan, the song is a dream-like journey with sparse instrumentation and a lingering melody sparking the listener’s imagination. In true understated heroine form, ‘Faithless Lover’ is an epic retelling of transcendent love. Hauntingly intimate yet steeped in cinematic grandeur, Reb Fountain renders the deeply personal as a mythic parable, welcoming a state of transformation.
“We are close; so close to ourselves it’s uncomfortable. Falling in love with illusions that serve the ego but not the heart. Faithless Lover tells a tale of mutiny; coming alive to oneself – one’s place in the story – in vulnerability and beyond fear. I want that; to transform the stories that bind us and to wake up in rebellion.” – Reb Fountain
In addition to the new single, Reb Fountain has announced a one-off show at The Brunswick Ballroom in Melbourne on Thursday 13 July. Playing with her full band of Dave Khan, Karin Canzek and Earl Robertson, this show comes on the back of a UK tour including respected music discovery festival The Great Escape this May. Anybody who has seen this band full flight knows the power of a Reb Fountain live show.
To accompany the release of ‘Faithless Lover’ Reb Fountain has also released a video for the song, directed and edited by Lola Fountain-Best. Shot on super 8 film, the video feels like an ethereal dream complimenting the tracks’ very essence and transporting viewers to another world, of the video, Reb says:“Lola and I had been plotting on how to best use expired Kodak 16mm film offered to us by cinematographer Ian Powell. We were inspired by narrative and filmic techniques of Ingmar Bergman and Jean Cocteau, in particular using fantasy to explore the philosophical. We created an archetypal fairy tale that explores the desire to attain the ideal in hopes of achieving the benefits of this fictitious nonpareil, when in fact that which we seek upholds the very captivity we are trying to escape.”
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Global Tour Dates
10-13 May @ The Great Escape Festival, Brighton, UK
Sat 13 May @ Little Rabbit Barn, Colchester, UK
Sun 14 May @ The Lexington, London, UK
Sat 3 June @ The Powerstation, Auckland, New Zealand
Tickets at rebfountain.co.nz
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‘Faithless Lover’ by Reb Fountain is out now via Flying Nun Records.
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