Name: Sun Casts A Shadow
Brand: Emily Fairlight and The Shifting Sands

Bonus disc

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Catalogue number

PROTEUS7E5078

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black

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Discs

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

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UPC / Barcode

5038622140816

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

PROTEUS7E5078CD

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5038622140823

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Artist

Emily Fairlight and The Shifting Sands

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Occultation Recordings

Emily Fairlight is a New Zealand songwriter with a rare talent for capturing the bare essence of stories and moods, combining beautifully honest lyrics with heartfelt melodies. The prevalence of acoustic guitar and intimate sharing of lived experience through song hint at folk music - or, as Fairlight self-deprecatingly calls it, “doom-folk”. Her powerful quivering vibrato and stark, haunting vocal tone are teak-hard yet soft as crushed velvet and have elicited comparisons to PJ Harvey, Bridget St John, Natalie Merchant and Cat Power, all musicians with distinctive voices and a lyrical talent for conjuring a kind of experiential realism. <i>Sun Casts a Shadow</i> is a stripped-down, timeless blend of Fairlight and McLeod’s songs, voices and guitars. 

Fairlight’s material carries the weight of experience, with McLeod’s harmony vocals and guitar adding colours from The Shifting Sands’ South Pacific Cosmic Rock palette to these vignettes of heartbreak and hope, while Fairlight’s voice brings character and a spectral quality to The Shifting Sands’ songs. With a pandemic devastating the international tour-scape in 2020, Emily's prolific writing continued back in NZ and another album has been recorded, showcasing a broader sonic palette and the continued maturing of Emily's songcraft. In the way that In The Pines marked a kind of unpressured bookend to the Triffids’ auspicious beginnings, before they took their next, bold, step, <i>Sun Casts a Shadow</i> is a quietly intriguing bridge between Fairlight’s past and future; a chapter in a story with many more to come.

Sun Casts A Shadow

Music GB