Reb Fountain talks through the lyrics to her beguiling new single 'Lacuna'
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New Zealand’s Reb Fountain today releases her new single ‘Lacuna’. The track is a beguiling guitar-indie-pop song which drives along with a pulsing beat that you can’t help but be carried away by. Like much of Fountain’s music, it follows an orthodox structure, with no traditional chorus and broken up by brief, if deliciously captivating, acoustic sections.
“Songs help us stop lying to ourselves,'' says Fountain of the song. Taking a deep dive into the lyrical content, she talks further about key points of the song:
“What a way to start kisses in the dark. There is strong loyalty to the secret; the social contract which binds us to the burden of the unsaid. The tension between devotion to the lie - masquerading as protection - and the desire to protect oneself, can render us absent to even the starkest of realities.
She slept through the war. There is some comfort in avoiding the storm, beating one’s wings against the glass ceiling wondering why you cannot reach the sky. Yet flying is what we do. And the weight of seeing the space that you do not fill can become too heavy to bear; where any solace gained from hiding from one’s truth is a poor reward for silence.
I couldn’t see but ripples in the water told me something’s out there. Songwriting is an opportunity to find agency, where experiences and life become transformed through story. We start to see ourselves as whole - imagine that which is already out there - searching for some way out and into ourselves.
The sum of us apart. What’s it like to grow into oneself, to wrestle with the intangible nature of our human condition, to see who we are. Unifying our many selves - the sum of our parts - we embrace the full complexities of the whole … uneasy, unsteady and uncomfortable but united and inexorably present.
Now my roots are extending. ‘Lacuna’ is the space for our voice to emerge into. A new dance that welcomes you into the void, to the all. It’s a reckoning, an opportunity to expand and contract anew. Welcome.”
Also out today is the music video for ‘Lacuna’. Shot in Queenstown, New Zealand by director Lola Fountain-Best, the video is one of exploration and transformation, a dance with our many selves.
‘Lacuna’ is the third taste of Fountain’s upcoming new album IRIS which is due on 1st October. It will be released on both black and turquoise vinyl, CD and digitally and given the strength of Fountain’s recent work is bound to be an end of year highlight.
‘Lacuna’ is out now via Flying Nun Records. You can buy and stream here.
IRIS will be released in 1 October 2021 via Flying Nun Records. You can pre-order you copy here.
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