Southern Alt-Country Emo Collective FARSEEK Share New Single “New Short Haircut” Ahead of LP
"Farseek have been putting out heartfelt, sincere emo since 2015, and I know how that sounds, but believe me: nothing they have ever done has been predictable." - Stereogum
"Every lyric, guitar lick, and drumbeat has been intentionally placed, resulting in five emo tracks that beautifully hang together and feel like a holistic experience." - Swim Into the Sound
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Focus Track: "New Short Haircut"
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Farseek's latest single "New Short Haircut" perfectly encapsulates the essence of intimate connection and the warmth of shared moments, painting a vivid portrait of love and devotion. With Cameron Harrison's poignant lyrics and a blend of emo and alt-country melodies, the song showcases a clear evolution from the band's pop-punk roots, while retaining their earnest, heartfelt storytelling. "New Short Haircut" serves as a captivating addition to Farseek's repertoire, inviting listeners to immerse themselves in its tender embrace and experience the beauty of human connection.
Listen to "New Short Haircut" everywhere now and get ready for the new LP, Who Can Start The Fires?, out 5/14 via Really Rad Records.
About The Band:
Every Farseek song is like a prayer. Cameron Harrison calls out for deliverance, but he isn’t entreating help from an unseen God; on the band’s new LP Who Can Start the Fires?, he’s talking to me and you. Despite that, it’s the most confident the band’s ever sounded.
The project has existed as a vessel for Harrison’s songwriting since 2014, in one form or another. On Who Can Start the Fires?, they’ve embraced their status as a collective in flux based in the southeastern US; they’ve also begun to hone in on the southern part of their identity, with Tailer Ransom contributing banjo to nearly half the songs on the record. But their evolution exists outside of rigid genre constraints; songs like “Crying” take the breakneck pace of punk and fill in the spaces with the bleating of a trumpet and waves of keys, where “Clouded by Hubris” is a dreamy, washed-out spin on classic country. It’s a far cry from the emo-pop Farseek made their bones on.
Lyrically, though, Harrison’s sights haven’t changed so much. Just as we’re still dealing with the same ills currently that we were in 2014, he’s still railing against them; on “Doom Scroll,” he tackles the ways the internet can unknowingly radicalize you, on “Keeping Me Down” the rise of overt white supremacy, and on “Pride” the subtler forms it can take—your neighbor’s blue lives matter sign, say. But it’s on songs like “Part of the Problem” where Farseek’s vision congeals. The song is about “unchecked biases and gut impulses to immediately defend the status quo,” about the ways we can perpetuate systems of oppression and dehumanization without thinking. But that means it’s also a song about the choice we have to challenge those beliefs in ourselves, in others. The optimistic vision that underpins those tracks is echoed in the album’s more traditional love songs, such as “Declaration of Affection” or “New Short Haircut,” and even its less traditional ones, like “Crying,” about the way Harrison’s cat Stormy would cry every time he left for work. It’s a tender song, and like “Declaration,” it’s one grounded in the understanding that love is a give-and-take, a necessarily shared experience. That’s ultimately the vision Who Can Start the Fires? imparts on the listener. Anyone can start a fire, but the only way to put it out is together.
Songwriter Cameron Harrison on the song:
""New Short Haircut" was stuck in my head for maybe two years before I fully articulated it. It was the second song for the album that I wrote. It took many forms as I demoed it many times before it fully came together in a way I hadn’t ever imagined when we were asked to play the Camp Trash album release show. We decided we wanted to have the biggest band on stage possible. Hearing it with multiple guitars, banjos, and keys was a game changer and fully shaped how this album needed to come together."
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