Reb Fountain Gives Another Taste of Debut Album with "When Gods Lie"
NZ local Reb Fountain has blessed us with the release of her second single of 2020, “When Gods Lie”, revealed on Friday 13th of March 2020, from her forthcoming self-titled album, set for release on May 1st 2020 with Flying Nun.
Reb has also hinted at a national Australian tour, to coincide with her appearance alongside Grinspoon’s Phil Jamieson, Sarah McLeod of The Superjesus, Shihad’s Jon Toogood, Samuel Flynn Scott, SJD, Delaney Davidson and Bob Evans of Jebediah to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Neil Young’s seminal album “Live Rust” in Sydney on May 7th and in Melbourne on May 9th.
In “When Gods Lie”, Reb’s mesmerising and alluring vocals sit perfectly atop pulsating folk instrumentation, creating a simultaneously soaring and mellow listen. Her country roots shine through in her new tough and tense sound. Her raw and palpale voice carries through the dramas of disillusionment and disbelief.
“‘When Gods Lie’ was of those tunes that came in a flash from the ether,” said Reb Fountain. “Remembering the times where you share your trust, your love, your belief in someone else; beautiful tender moments where you open up and perhaps raise them up a little too high above you. Then they fall – be it a lover, a friend, a celebrity icon, an ideology – those gods that we believed would hold us in our stupor forever, let go… for they are only human by design.
For me, the song embraces all of those aspects; the deeply personal experience of a lover letting me go, a friend dying too young, along with the more social rise/demise in the humanness of a once-beloved celebrity and the deep betrayal hidden within the folds of colonialism and/or religious fundamentalism.
Perhaps most importantly, one can deceive oneself… It is this awareness that the stories we tell ourselves shape our experiences, that is what empowers us. Once we have witnessed and felt ‘when gods lie’, and chosen to see our part in the great fall, we are set free.”
The music video for “When Gods Lie”, premiered by Consequence of Sound and directed by Lola Fountain-Best, was shot entirely on black and white super 8 film, giving it an incomparable texture and richness. Using part-human, part-animal masks to play with the notion of identity and being, the video creates an intoxicating fantasy world exploring the stories we tell ourselves.
We can’t wait to hear what her self-titled album will bring in May.
