FAINT ILLUSIONS OUT MAY 15, 2025
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| Farmer’s Wife are excited to announce their new EP, Faint Illusions, arriving May 15, 2025. An exploration of what’s real and what’s a figment of our imaginations, the forthcoming EP inspects reality in the context of love along churning guitars and bone-chattering whimsy. “Seethe” premiered last month, with “Mildew” preceding it, sonically previewing what’s to come from the rising group. PRE-SAVE FAINT ILLUSIONS LISTEN TO “SEETHE” WATCH THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR “MILDEW” Since their inception in 2021, Farmer’s Wife has been a local go-to within Austin’s DIY scene, known for their incendiary performances, swirling guitar riffs and sludgy sound. Their first EP, There’s A Monster, arrived fall of 2023 and solidified their ability to create atmospheric songs that pull the listener in completely, bringing them into their dark fairy tale world. Last year, the group shared new singles “Boheme,” and a cover of Donovan’s “Season of the Witch,” previewing a deep shift in sound before touring around the U.S. with contemporaries like Cloud Nothings, Armlock, and Equipment. LISTEN TO “SEASON OF THE WITCH” Coming off an explosive tour with Destroy Boys, Farmer’s Wife will hit the road again this spring supporting Boston Manor with Spaced and Ellis. For a full list of dates, see below or visit farmers-wife.com. FARMER’S WIFE LIVEWITH BOSTON MANOR, SPACED & ELLIS MAY 1 – Subterranean – Chicago, IL 3 – Mahall’s – Lakewood, OH 4 – Velvet Underground – Toronto, ON 6 – Brighton Music Hall – Allston, MA 7 – The Meadows – Brooklyn, NY 9 – Ukie Club – Philadelphia, PA 10 – Ottobar – Baltimore, MD 11 – Richmond Music Hall – Richmond, VA 13 – Motorco Music Hall – Durham, NC 14 – Radio Room – Greenville, SC 16 – The Social – Orlando, FL 17 – The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA 18 – The End – Nashville, TN |
| FARMER’S WIFE FAINT ILLUSIONS Release date: May 15, 2025 |
| [Download Hi-Res Artwork] 1. Dirty Shirley 2. Seethe – LISTEN 3. Mildew – WATCH 4. The Ballet 5. Discount Roses |
| ABOUT FARMER’S WIFE:As the renaissance of 90s shoegaze continues, Austin’s Farmer’s Wife tread moodily around its boundaries. Combining elements of dirge, psych, scatterings of 80’s pop and heavy doses of grunge, their music recalls the best of that era – the early records from Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, Jane’s Addiction, and Slowdive. Singer and guitarist Molly Masson’s voice is beguilingly wistful, delivering lyrics that blend art-house horror with fantastical romance, cocooned in a fairytale nightfall. Musically, drummer Jaelyn Valero and bassist Jacob Masson match that unease with brooding rhythm, and guitarists Jude Hill and Derek Ivy alternate lush melodies with walls of tension and gloom. The overall effect is intricate and unnerving, the feeling of sitting in peaceful sunlight with a dark forest of untold terrors surrounding you. These off-kilter dreams are perfectly captured on songs such as “Shoe Goo” and “Swarm” or the beautiful melancholy of “Pool Song.” Their new EP, Faint Illusions, takes things to a grittier place musically, but with the same familiar themes winding throughout the songs. Decomposing, fading, withering – imagery blending gothic finality with romantic despair. “Tangled up in silk again. Cover me in your mildew….The fruit it rots and falls onto me,” sings Molly on “Mildew,” once again turning decay into ardor. Repeatedly, the band weaves the most delicate lyrical webs through a storm of instrumental lament. “Walking down the sunset, stars are in the street. One pocket full of posies, one pocket full of meat,” sets the ghoulish tone for “The Ballet” – a song that starts in whimsical twilight before spiraling into a fever dream of night and chaos. The final track, “Discount Roses” sees a simple tale of falling in love swallowed by metaphors of alien abduction and a nod to a paradise of the afterlife – coming full circle on the arc of love’s birth and death. As with all their music, the allegories blend into the storytelling, which is sometimes intensely personal and at others wholly voyeuristic. That push-pull of intimacy and distance is central to both their recordings and live show, leaving you constantly off-balance but always enraptured. |
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