Comprised of Chet Delcampo, Heyward Howkins
(collaborators with members of The War On Drugs, Karl Blau), duo’s latest single
out Feb. 11th.
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Later Fortune | “Win” (David Bowie Cover)
“Ever since the Beatles,
b-sides have carried a certain mystique. For the back half of their upcoming
single, “Lateral To The Devil” (due
February 11), Later Fortune chose to cover David Bowie’s “Win,” an underappreciated soul-noir
classic from 1975’s Young Americans. It’s the first release from the Philly duo — Chet Delcampo and Heyward Howkins — in three years. And the b-side is certainly no
throwaway.” — Hobart Rowland, MAGNET Magazine
“The video accompaniment to ‘Win’ is meant to be a dark, lo-fi counterpoint to the polished
beauty of Later Fortune’s interpretation
of the Bowie tune,” explains
director, Robert A. Emmons Jr. “Shot
completely using two VHS cameras, the video’s protagonist, isolated and pining
for a ‘win’ of their own, creates a type of lyric video ‘ransom note’ using the
types of ephemera found decaying in cardboard boxes across the country — old
magazines and VHS tapes — in the hopes that someone out there gets the message…
and maybe reaches back.”
Watch “Win”
now via MAGNET Magazine or at the link above.
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Later Fortune | In The Press
“Wistful, melancholy, and obsessively manicured... crushed-velvet reverie.” — Philadelphia Weekly
“Lush, lucid. Warm and ethereal. It contains
multitudes.” — WXPN (NPR), Philadelphia
“Intriguing indie-folk... sung with a keening voice
that grows on you.” — Philadelphia
Inquirer
“Lovely and moody.” — Philadelphia Daily News
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Later
Fortune
“Lateral To The Devil” b/w “Win” (David Bowie Cover)
Feb. 11th, 2022
Track Listing:
Side A. Lateral To The Devil
Side B: Win (David Bowie Cover) (STREAM | VIDEO)
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Later Fortune | About
Their names alone spark curiosity: Later Fortune is the Philly-based duo
of Chet Delcampo and Heyward Howkins.
Both are busy musicians and songwriters working at the
front, back, and on stage, as well as appearing on each other’s recordings.
This makes their upcoming two-song “Lateral
To The Devil” single (out Feb. 11th,
2022) a rare thing. The previous Later
Fortune release dropped three years ago, but patience pays.
Even at a mere two tracks and even with one being a
cover (David Bowie’s Young
Americans album cut “Win,”
which Bowie biographer David Buckley called “one of the most
gorgeous melodies Bowie has ever
written”), it’s enough to underscore the taste and talent that results from
decades of adulting in music.
Delcampo has two earlier album releases to his name, as well
as another pair as Hong Kong Stingray, and in real life, he’s called Chris Madl. His list of current and
former collaborators is long, including Kid
Congo Powers, Joel RL Phelps, Dave Lovering of The Pixies, and Karl Blau
(who contributes the cover art for this release). Maybe Delcampo’s affinity for an alias is an extra wrinkle to the choice
of a Bowie deep cut.
“I remember hearing ‘Win’ as a kid, lying on the bedroom floor with headphones,
Christmas lights flickering,” Delcampo
says. “It’s just one of those implanted youth-related feelings that invoke a
warm recall, and when we were considering doing a cover, I thought we could do
something interesting. Hopefully it’s a fresh take.”
“I think my tween Depeche
Mode influences crept in,” says Howkins,
who has released two full-length albums of his own, co-founded the choral group
The Silver Ages with members of Dr. Dog and The War on Drugs, and is known during the day as John. “As a kid, I practiced my singing
to Depeche Mode songs. I had never
heard David Bowie’s ‘Win,’ but Chet thought we could make it bold. The melody is weird, so it was
challenging. I’m psyched with how moody and dark our version is.”
Delcampo is impressed.
“Heyward
wasn’t initially aware of the song,” he explains. “It was a real kick when I
heard him carving a space for his voice to reside and owning it.”
“My solo music is not typically electronic,” Howkins explains. “This palette gave me
freedom to be more emotive and to sing out more.”
Maybe the lyric by Howkins that opens “Lateral
To The Devil” also harkens back to his life-long love of Depeche Mode. It could easily have come
from that band’s mid-career catalog and is satisfying in its intelligence
without being too smart for its own good.
“Sat lateral to the devil, not above him more on
equal,” Howkins sings over quivering
electronics and a spare piano figure that gives way to pulsating bass and
washes of drums. He continues, singing, “Asked if he knew what it’s like to be
human, he said I wouldn’t choose it.”
“I enjoy trusting Heyward’s
lyrical strengths,” Delcampo states.
Coupled with his equally powerful vocals –soulful,
stirring, and silent at the right moments – the song is like porcelain.
Beautiful and sturdy, but delicate and temporary. It makes the case for
brevity.
Their names spark curiosity and this brief statement
in song does too.
Chet
Delcampo (aka Chris Madl) is currently in the final stages of wrapping up a new
album as Hong Kong Stingray. Heyward Howkins is in the final stages
of recording a new solo EP.
“Lateral To
The Devil” b/w/ “Win,” the upcoming single from their collaboration Later Fortune, arrives Feb. 11th, 2022.
Later Fortune is
available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Later
Fortune | Links
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“Wistful, melancholy, and obsessively manicured... crushed-velvet reverie.” — Philadelphia Weekly
“Lateral To The Devil” b/w “Win” (David Bowie Cover)
Feb. 11th, 2022
Track Listing:
Side B: Win (David Bowie Cover) (STREAM | VIDEO)
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