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Friday, May 28, 2021
The Enigmatic Foe drops first single (w/ non-album tracks) from upcoming 2XLP; Launches podcast w/ drummer Frank Lenz (Richard Swift, Pedro The Lion, Headphones.)
“The Kids Are Alright” lyrics nod to Squeeze’s Difford
& Tilbrook. RIYL: XTC, Empire of The Sun, Tahiti 80, Starflyer 59. “The
Original Plan” album arrives July 30th. +++
Jared Colinger of The Enigmatic Foe as photographed by Stacy Littleton +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE The Enigmatic Foe | “The Kids Are Alright”
Check out “The
Kids Are Alright,” the first single from the upcoming The Original Plan by The Enigmatic Foe at Spill
Magazine or at the link below (including two non-album tracks!) “I have no personal experience with being divorced or
having kids,” Jared Colinger says of
the song’s theme. “I’m not sure what possessed me to write from this
perspective. Maybe listening to Squeeze
and the songs of Difford & Tilbrook
had an impact. It may have been written out of fear, as I was concerned my
lyrical inspirations would suffer from being in a positive relationship. I
tried to make the father figure be a sympathetic character and to keep the kids
as the central focus, while his world is collapsing around him.” [STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/TheEnigmaticFoe-TheKidsAreAlright +++ The Enigmatic Foe | Podcast
“In
this episode, you’ll be hearing the first part of a phone conversation I had
with Frank Lenz (credits with Richard Swift, Everest, Pedro The Lion,
Headphones, and many more) who did
the drums, percussion, and background vocals on The Original Plan,” says Jared Colinger of The Enigmatic Foe, introducing the first episode of a podcast series
about his new album. “We spoke for about an hour about music, his gear, the
songwriting process, and you get a real behind the scenes look at the
production of the album.” Check
out Lenz’s music at thefranklenz.bandcamp.com and velvetbluemusic.com. Future episodes
will feature The Original Plan collaborators Josh Dooley and Chris
Colbert. +++ The Enigmatic Foe | Vinyl Pre-Order
Pre-order the
deluxe double vinyl version of The
Enigmatic Foe’s upcoming album The Original Plan at Bandcampnow!
Pressed on standard 160gm black vinyl with a gatefold jacket at 45RPM. Includes
download card. +++ The Enigmatic Foe The
Original Plan July 30th, 2021 (S/R)
Track
Listing: 01. Simulacrum 02. The Kids Are Alright (STREAM) 03. Young Man’s Game 04. Ms. Fortune and Her Mate 05. The Suffering Art 06. Too Much Fun 07. It’s Not Who You Are 08. That Would Be Fun 09. Ninety-Nine Percent 10. Come and Go (STREAM) 11. Pavlovian Cement 12. Darkness and Light 13. Two Strong Words 14. Genesis +++ The Enigmatic
Foe | About The
Enigmatic Foe is the work of
Knoxville-based songwriter and musician, Jared
Colinger. The tunes on his upcoming new album The
Original Plan (July 30th)
often remind of a melancholy Andy
Partridge of XTC, which is,
frankly, a quality we all need to hear about in music more often. Essentially, Colinger’s
pop tunes are wrapped in just enough self-awareness to be relatable, and just
enough sadness to land. Back to operating The
Enigmatic Foe as a solo project, Colinger
is once again the Mayor of his own Simpleton (XTC!), although there are a few citizens about including Frank Lenz (Headphones, Richard Swift)
on Drums and Josh Dooley (Map, Fine China) on Electric Guitar. The Original Plan was mixed and mastered at Swift’s studio National
Freedom by Chris Colbert. With Colinger
alone at the helm again, he is also now in full command of articulating those
all-too-common solitary feelings of self-doubt and inauthenticity that permeate
music that sticks like this. “I’m afraid they can see right through me / That I’m
just a facsimile,” he bravely sings on album opener “Simulacrum,” a cathartic and personal song written shortly after Colinger’s father passed, where he
sings about the possibility of being an inferior representation of his Dad. The song leads right into what could be a meta address
of the “Simulacrum” concept by
lifting a song title from The Who on
Colinger’s original tune “The Kids Are Alright,” the album’s
first single. Far from a facsimile, however, the song shows off just how
singular Colinger’s voice and music
actually are. Clearly, the confinement of working within his newly
re-solo status suits Colinger well.
Or, maybe he’s just a great actor? “I’m not sure what possessed me to write from this
perspective,” he says of “The Kids Are
Alright.” “I have no personal experience with being divorced or having
kids. I may have written it out of fear!” RIYL obsessives will also hear shades of Squeeze, Depeche Mode, and The Smiths
on Colinger’s expansive 14-cut The
Original Plan. Contemporaries such as Empire of The Sun, Tahiti 80,
and Starflyer 59 (who Colinger has actually collaborated with
previously) also ring bells. The Original Plan also delves into a variety of less expected sounds,
with “Pavlovian Cement” and it’s
Latin Jazz-leaning dueling saxophones, the country shuffle of “Ninety-Nine Percent,” and a 6/8 waltz
courtesy of “It’s Not Who You Are.” The overall concepts of The Original Plan address
the idea that we often (or maybe never?) end up where we originally set out to
get to. Colinger’s route has
certainly been circuitous to the max. Over 15-plus years of releasing music, in what venerable
rock magazine The Big Takeover calls
“a classic evolvement narrative” (also noting that Colinger’s guitars twinkle “like better ‘70s FM rock,” natch), Colinger has mastered the simplicity of
reaching for and writing about what’s right there within. He makes this task that so many writers never manage
to achieve look, well... simple. The Original Plan by The
Enigmatic Foe is schedule for release digitally on July 30th and as a deluxe
two-LP vinyl set. Jared Colinger of The Enigmatic Foe is available for
interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information. +++ The Enigmatic Foe | Links ASSETS : FACEBOOK : INSTAGRAM : YOUTUBE : BANDCAMP : SPOTIFY : APPLE
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