Fine Place- This New Heaven

Label: Night School

Released 2021

FINE PLACE is a new duo comprising FRANKIE ROSE (VIVIAN GIRLS, CRYSTAL STILTS, DUM DUM GIRLS) and MATTHEW HORD (RUNNING, POP. 1280, BRANDY). Based in Brooklyn, NYC, together they’ve crafted a crystalline full-length of nocturnal, electronic pop music that charts a way out the post-global, cyberpunk dystopian environment it was crafted in. Their debut album This New Heaven drenches minimalist song structures in post-industrial washes of sixstring delay and gothic post-punk synths. Presiding over it is the most evocative, emotive vocal performance Frankie Rose has committed to tape to date. Following Hord’s relocation from Chicago, the pair wanted to explore new avenues apart from their respective bands or solo projects. Sonically, Fine Place references the pioneering mid-to-late ’80s pioneers of icy melodrama The Cure and Cocteau Twins, while reflecting both the individuals’; music trajectories thus far. Modular synthesis triggers rhythm boxes and fluttery arps chirp around clanging 808-patterning as Rose’s reverb-laden vocal layering envelops the remaining headroom. The result is massive; a towering, shadowy music that embraces darkness while offering Rose’s bright vocal as chinks of light in the cracks; the production filling the head space of the beholder with preternatural imagery and emotional resonances that are real but not quite defined. North America only.

Track Listing:

1. I Can't Shake It    
   
2. This New Heaven    
   
3. Cover Blind    
   
4. Tending To Twenty    
   
5. It's Your House    
   
6. Impressions Of Me    
   
7. Tell Me A Second Time    
   
8. The Party Is Over