This week sees the release of False God, the latest offering from Felix Hatfield, an artist who would not have been out of place on the bus with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters. His music aligns beautifully with the likes of Michael Hurley and the Holy Modal Rounders, and that’s a refreshing surrealist orbit to be in – well better than one swamped in commercial debris. If you want something refreshingly different from all the carbon copies out there, then this is the right place…Hatfield’s music is a cure for the mundane.
In our last anti-homogenous musical mix – KLOF No. 6 (listen here), Hatfield joined a list of alternative players including Hawaiian-influenced music of 1930s Greece (Kostas Bezos and the White Birds) and today we get to share another track from False God. Watch his video for Walking Distance, featuring the wonderful Jolie Holland.
Felix Hatfield:
“Here is a slow stroll on a country road in the moonlight. Maybe you’re dressed as a harlequin playing a sad horn or that’s just how you feel.
Sometimes it seems that even though something is in the past it can still be accessed if you take the right path or dimension.
I had a fence out my window once and a mirror inside. There was a warp in the mirror. In the warp, the reflection of the fence and the crack between boards was widened as if to make a passage or portal, but only through the warp.
This contemplative and nostalgic weeper about time travel is inspired by one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes with the same title.
Featuring Jolie Holland on doubled harmonies.”
False God is released on October 23rd via Fangbite Records
Photo Credit: Larry Louie