Who Can Start the Fires?

by FARSEEK

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releases May 14, 2024

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a clear round 7" Lathe Cut of our newest singles, Salt and the re-recorded version of New Short Haircut. Comes in a semi-gloss case with two sided 7"x14" insert.

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1.	Crying
2.	Deconditioned
3.	Salt 04:14	lyrics	buy track
When we kiss, I feel your smile Pressed against my teeth Your arms draped over me A locked stare in cool autumn air Good morning Good morning Good morning Good morning When we kiss I taste the salt Of my skin on your lips And it’s warm inside my chest And my mind when you’re close My heart melts when the sun casts over you The light paints shapes across your body In our bed In the morning In the morning In the morning In the morning When counting moments in Perfectly aligned heartbeats My chest – it feels so full Enlightened. It’s become so clear I’m elated, a glimpse of joy This is all from you. This is all for you Caught me counting moments in Perfectly aligned heartbeats In the morning In the morning In the morning In the morning
4.	Declaration of Affection
5.	Keeping Me Down
6.	Infinitely Sunny Days
7.	Clouded by Hubris
8.	Pride 02:26		buy track
9.	Part of the Problem
10.	Thanks for Saving My House From Burning Down
11.	Doom Scroll
12.	New Short Haircut 04:25	lyrics	buy track
I’m always thinking about Your new short haircut The way the tips of your hair Kiss the collar of your blue denim jacket The way you try so hard to be your best Now I’m convinced that you’re the best Person I’ll ever meet I’m always thinking about Your new short haircut The way the tips of your hair Kiss the collar of your blue denim jacket I’m always thinking about Your new short haircut

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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.

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releases May 14, 2024

All Songs Written & Performed by Farseek

Produced and Engineered by Cameron Harris
Additional Engineering by Kyle Hoeffer
Mixed by Kyle Hoeffer
Mastered by Jon Markson

Farseek is:
Cameron Harrison (He/They) - Vocals/Bass/Keys/Guitar
Tailer Ransom (He/Him) - Banjo/Keys
Ben Bradford (He/Him) - Trumpet
Cory Jacobson (He/Him) - Drums on tracks 5
Nathan Riddle (He/Him) - Drums on tracks 3,4,5,6,7, and 12
Teagan Hershberger (He/Him) - Bass on tracks 3,4,5,6,7, and 12
Jeremy Burgess (He/Him) - Drums on tracks 8, 9, 10, 11
Kyle Weidner ( He/Him) - Bass on tracks 8, 9, 10, 11

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