Third album from L.A.-based Faris McReynolds utilizes “cheap
gear from the past” to mimic sound of Dad’s stereo.
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Faris McReynolds of One Finger Riot as
photographed by Andre Vippolis
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“The
Sea” is the title track from the new album by One Finger Riot. Hear it via Nylon Guys
or the links below!
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“Complex and dreamlike” –USA Today
The upcoming album The Sea (July 22, Post Planetary) documents the
end of a very long relationship, and is the first One Finger Riot full-length since a slew of releases by
one-man-band Faris McReynolds in
2012, which included two from One Finger Riot and second pair from his
now-shuttered ExDetectives
moniker. A prolific creator, all of this
musical work is in addition to McReynolds’
“day job” as a gallery-backed
painter.
The album’s latest single is its title track, of which
McReynolds explains, “I was staring
at the beach in Big Sur thinking about how all of these things that don't work
out in life are just part of the evolution of what eventually will.” The track is streaming and available for
download now via Nylon Guys.
“This is the first record I’ve seen all the way
through by myself,” he says of The Sea, “and I think the first that
sounds like it. It sounds like my
previous records, but rolled into something more coherent and upright.”
McReynolds goes on to curiously describe the sound of The
Sea as “punk-simple, but not punk-modulated. There’s a guy in the
outskirts of L.A. who built me a lot of inexpensive, simple, gear to get the
sounds I am after. I rely on cheap random gear from the past or one-off
devices. A lot of Radio Shack and
re-purposed pre-amps.”
One of the sounds prevalent throughout the record is
the dry fuzz guitar tone that McReynolds
says is meant to mimic “the sound my Dad’s stereo made when I would plug my
bass into the mic input as a kid.”
Faris McReynolds of One Finger
Riot is available for interviews.
Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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One Finger Riot
The
Sea
(Post Planetary – July 22nd,
2014)
Track Listing:
03. Epic Dream
04. I’m Another You
05. Flame In The Big Dark
06. All We Are Is All
07. The Hardest Part of Love
08. I’m Still You
09. The Waking Lost
10. Wanting Breaks My Heart
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One Finger Riot Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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