Fievel Is Glauque share two new songs and a short film
15.08.2023 - 15:51
/ thefader.com
If art is creativity plus proficiency plus chance, Fievel Is Glauque are exemplars of its purist form. During their trans-Atlantic “writing trips,” generally held when multi-instrumentalist Zach Phillips and singer Ma Clement visit each other in Brooklyn and Brussels, respectively, they take a spontaneous yet controlled approach, starting and finishing a song each day, with Phillips constructing intricate arrangements to Clement’s angular melodies, one bar at a time.
Today, Phillips and Clement are announcing their signing to the historic Oxford, Mississippi indie label Fat Possum, with a repress of their catalog (the 2021 compilation album God’s Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess and their debut studio LP, Flaming Swords, released last year) coming soon. They’re celebrating with two new Fievel is Glauque tracks, recorded on the most recent of these trips, and a Joey Agresta-directed short film that captures the cosmic randomness of their sound.
Read Next: Song You Need: Fievel Is Glauque remain mysterious The video begins with Clement coming upon a back-alley game that Phillips reveals is called Dice 10,000, speaking from behind a ski mask and a recent issue of the New York Post. From there, the pair embark on an Atlantic City road trip soundtracked first by “Dark Dancing,” a tightly wound, jazzy cut, and later by “I’m Scanning Things I Can’t See,” a looser, more free-associative single.
Between the two songs, Phillips muses on the phrase “it’s always darkest before the dawn,” deciding that, in reality, “it seems more possible that all things yield to another in some kind of swift transit, and without respecting that fact, we don’t get anything done at all.” Watch the film exclusively above. Below, stream the tracks on
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