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Marigolden
Artist
Field Report
Label
Partisan Records
Catalogue Number
PTKF2118-0
Release Date
November 10, 2014

The past couple of years have flashed by for Porterfield, who was thrust into the spotlight after years of musical reclusion. His Milwaukee-based band, Field Report (an anagram of his surname), was culled together in the studio while recording their 2012 self-titled debut. They suddenly found themselves championed by their former idols: offered support tours by Counting Crows and Aimee Mann, lauded by the likes of Mark Eitzel and Richard Thompson, and covered by Blind Boys Of Alabama.

The band honed itself from a septet to a quartet in the year that followed, focusing its sound and tightening the screws. With a heavy batch of songs under their arms, they retreated to snowy Ontario in December 2013 to record their sophomore album, Marigolden, with the help of producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist).

Spending two years roaming around the country playing tiny venues and sold-out amphitheaters alike, Porterfield was uncertain whether he was leading the charge toward an artistic epiphany or headed down a misguided path of self-destruction. Marigolden reflects this, as he ruminates across homesick tension and an un-grounded anxiety. But rather than wallow in melancholy, Porterfield finds solace and inspiration through his songs, which reveal themselves as uplifting and celebratory. The album is brighter than their 2012 debut, but somehow remains just as elegantly ominous.

Sequestered in a seemingly never-ending Ontario blizzard, the band only broke from this musical process to add logs to the stove, with the snow and the fire providing a proper background for music so rooted in the elemental. The effect that this fundamentals-based approach achieves is universal: the sparse arrangements and common themes speak to everyone, but somehow feel tailored to each listener. The title itself reflects this, a portmanteau of two common images (marigold and golden) to create something that feels both idiosyncratic and familiar: Marigolden.

Standard Black Vinyl LP includes Digital Download Card (High Quality 320kbps MP3).

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Decision Day 4:32 Buy

    Decision Day

  2. 2 Home (Leave The Lights On) 3:41 Buy

    Home (Leave The Lights On)

  3. 3 Pale Rider 5:01 Buy

    Pale Rider

  4. 4 Cups and Cups 4:21 Buy

    Cups and Cups

  5. 5 Ambrosia 4:46 Buy

    Ambrosia

  6. 6 Wings 4:32 Buy

    Wings

  7. 7 Marigolden 4:19 Buy

    Marigolden

  8. 8 Michelle 5:14 Buy

    Michelle

  9. 9 Summons 4:51 Buy

    Summons

  10. 10 Enchantment 5:01 Buy

    Enchantment

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