FAIRCHILD Share With Us Their Latest Track ‘Breathless’

Australian, Manchester-based, six-piece FAIRCHILD are set to continue their streak of 1980s musical praises with the release of their third EP ‘Breathless’. Produced by friend and collaborator Catherine Marks (Foals, The Killers, Wolf Alice) and recorded on the Gold Coast, lead singer Adam Lyons was given the opportunity to oversee mixing at Assault and Battery Studios in London. The title track is a slow, sensual, four-to-the-floor rollick into unchartered territory. It instigated a series of pre-production sessions, with each band member contributing ideas unhindered by genre expectations.

FAIRCHILD worked individually and in small groups, at times swapping instruments, sharing half-baked riffs, beats, bites and grooves during an exacting four month period of brainstorming and began to recognise parallels between their recordings and the songs of the 80s bands they’d always loved. The EP opens with the pounding drums and sundrenched keys of ‘Nom de Guerre’ – a track that is at once vital and relaxed, showcasing the duality of sounds and themes FAIRCHILD is capable of meshing. ‘Hot Rod’ surges forward with its heavy wall of sound, lingering keys, and the sort of unapologetic drop-D power riffage found on metal and heavy rock B-sides. Fellow Canvas Sounds act ‘KNDR’ closes the EP with an electronic remix of ‘Breathless’.

Patrick Miller

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