DETAILS
TRACKS
Side A
- Lightest Light / 4:07
- Nothing Is On / 4:20
- Need You / Don't Need You / 5:44
- Only A Beat / 4:16
Side B
- How A Fantasy Will Kill Us All / 5:46
- Fierce In The Headlights / 5:09
- A Silhouette As A Sound / 5:32
- Look For Paradise / 4:43
- I'll Take The Storm / 2:56
RELEASE DATE
06/22/2018
**Includes instant download of the album**
“In early June of 2015 I uprooted my life and home of 21 years in Portland, Oregon and relocated to Richmond, Virginia… for love. The love as it turned out, was not there. It was a vacant stare, and within less than a month I got back in my car and returned west.” — Corrina Repp
On her fifth full-length LP, How A Fantasy Will Kill Us All, songwriter Corrina Repp charts a path through the unknown. Fueled by a desire to start over and make a clean break with Portland, where she’d lived for 21 years, and where she released a string of albums on HUSH and Mark Kozelek’s Caldo Verde label, played with her band Tu Fawning, and appeared semi-regularly on the parody comedy series Portlandia, Repp headed across the country. The promise of a new relationship was waiting for her, but it wasn’t to be. Turning away from the failed relationship after three weeks, Repp made survival a full-time occupation. Stowing her possessions in a storage unit in Woodland Hills, California, and leaving with no real plan, Repp embarked on a nomadic journey that would shade her music for years to come.
The songs on the new record came together over two fitful, unrooted years that found her working at the Sou’Wester motor lodge on the coast of Washington, staying at the Saint-Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt convent in Northern France where she dedicated herself to playing music, writing songs in a sublet in Los Angeles, and finally, in Louisville, Kentucky, where she holed up with Danny Seim of Menomena to record How A Fantasy Will Kill Us All. Recording during the day and retiring to a small, cold room each night with Phil, a stray cat and bad TV box sets to keep her company, Repp found herself drawn to freedom in ways she’d never experienced it. She made friends with Richard Sullivan, an ex-ball player turned painter. She went to parties and art galleries. She spent large swaths of time by herself.
These experiences blurred into her art. Built on foundational loops and drones, Repp’s songs mingle solid, folk-tinged melodies with distortion, kaleidoscopic pop, and disjointed, cobbled together beats. She buries her resonant anthems under hiss (“Nothing Is On,” “Look For Paradise”), navigates uncertainty with eerie confidence (“Need You / Don’t Need You,” “Lightest Light”) and makes her proclamations of independence sound like faithful hymns (“I’ll Take The Storm”). Sometimes she sounds like a gospel singer, sometimes she sounds like a slightly malfunctioning tape deck, but always, she sounds free.
“Maybe you found it/We’ll just see what happens/see what happens,” she sings over chorded guitar and piano on the album’s title song. The record lives in that sense of maybe, and takes comfort in what happens when illusions and fantasies are replaced with real confounding experiences. The record is a time capsule, Repp writes in her evocative, travelogue-inspired liner notes, “About how having expectations could lead to one bloody, yet delicious downfall.” But the record doesn’t represent what happens when it all falls apart: it’s about finding out who you are without anything unnecessary. Only the essential and elemental, the things needed when the unknown beckons.
EXPLORE

Federale
Reverb & Seduction

The Third Sex
The Third Sex - Back To Go

Califone
The Villagers Companion

The Delines
Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom

Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld
Save It For Later

The Hoom
On Gabadon

Boxhead Ensemble
Ancient Music

Blue Cranes
My Only Secret

Califone
Califone CD Reissues

Johanna Samuels
Bystander

Califone
villagers

Jenny Conlee
Tides: Pieces For Accordion And Piano

The Hackles
What a beautiful thing I have made

The Hackles
Song For The Fool

Martha Scanlan & Jon Neufeld
Last Stars First Light

No. 2
First Love

José Medeles
Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems

Federale
Our Side Of Their Story

The Delines
The Sea Drift

Motrik
MØØN: The Cosmic Electrics of MØTRIK

Dave Depper
Europa

Motrik
Artificial Head

Eyelids
The Accidental Falls

Califone
Echo Mine

The Hackles
A Dobritch Did As A Dobritch Should

Federale
No Justice

Eamon Fogarty
Blue Values

Team Dresch
Choices, Chances, Changes: Singles & Comptracks 1994-2000

Team Dresch
Captain My Captain

Team Dresch
Personal Best

Martha Scanlan
The West Was Burning

Martha Scanlan
Tongue River Stories: Autumn

The Hackles
The Twilight's Calling It Quits

1939 Ensemble
New Cinema

Eyelids
Maybe More

Tim Rutili & Craig Ross
10 Seconds To Collapse

Motrik
Safety Copy

Eyelids
or

Sin Ropas
Mirror Bride

Annalisa Tornfelt
Search Zero

Luke Ydstie
Collected Essential Works

Jenny Conlee with Steve Drizos
French Kayaking Music

Kind of Like Spitting
You Secretly Want Me Dead

The Valiant Arms
Swallow The Sea: The Songs of The Crabs

Annalisa Tornfelt
The Number 8

Hook & Anchor
Hook & Anchor

Eyelids
854

Motrik
Motrik
