{"id":10089,"date":"2012-03-30T07:19:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2012-03-30T09:54:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:54:42","slug":"fergus-falls-by-field-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-03\/fergus-falls-by-field-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Fergus Falls by Field Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the best songs we discovered in 2011 was Conrad Plymouth’s<\/strong> Fergus Falls<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Heck, on a couple of days we put the sucker on repeat and listened only to that song each of those days.\u00a0 We wrote about it HERE<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Turn’s out Conrad Plymouth’s leader, Chris Porterfield<\/strong>, has in 2012 renamed\/reformed the band into Field Report<\/strong>.\u00a0 Porterfield is amongst the famed alumni in legendary Wisconsin band DeYarmond Edison<\/strong> that also included Justin Vernon from Bon Iver<\/strong> and members of Megafaun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Porterfield\/Field Report\u00a0 recently released a few tracks on SoundCloud<\/a>, which caught the attention of producer Paul Kolderie<\/strong> (producer of similarly legendary Uncle Tupelo<\/strong>).\u00a0 Field Report is now working on a new recording with Kolderie that should be released mid-summer.\u00a0 We can’t wait.<\/p>\n

The immediate upshot of this news is that Field Report has released a fantastically refined restatement of Fergus Falls<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 As opposed to the more aggressive, anthemic Conrad Plymouth version, the song begins with finger-picked guitar that slowly builds with added synth wash, drum mallet and brush, then strings, horns (fully starting at 3:28) and harmonies.\u00a0 Beauty.\u00a0 We said this previously about the song’s lyrics:\u00a0 “‘This is the one in which I miraculously pulled out\/ Of a free-fall dive over Fergus Falls, Minnesota.'”\u00a0 Sometimes we rejoice in victory.\u00a0 At other times it\u2019s enough to celebrate the aversion of a downward-spiral disaster and to proclaim victory in survival.”\u00a0 This song provides positive proof that fantastic songs simply fall out of the sky at times.\u00a0 Check it out below.\u00a0 And after check out the only other Field Report song currently available, the heavily affecting I Am Not Waiting Anymore.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Field Report is currently on tour with the magnificent Megafaun.\u00a0 Check out their tour dates way below.
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