Back in January, Bob Fish told us “Farmer Dave and The Wizards of The West is a trip unlike anything else you are likely to take this year. They play with time zones and time signatures, trampling over anything that gets in their way. Not rude, but definitely unruly, they know no bounds. They go where they want, laying waste to anything that gets in their way. This is music that cannot be contained. Farmer Dave and The Wizards of The West demand your attention. Resistance is futile”.
The self-titled album was the first release in ten years from the Southern Californian, tie-dyed mystic Farmer Dave Scher who was a member of Beachwood Sparks and All Night Radio, and has worked with Will Oldham, Kurt Vile, Interpol, Jenny Lewis, Elvis Costello and Animal Collective. As Bob said ‘that’s quite a CV’.
This Friday (23 April) sees a single version release of the country psych track ‘Babe Got Plans (For Me)‘…
Here is how the lead Wizard explains the beautiful new single:
“‘Babe Got Plans (for Me)’ is a song of love and loss and ultimately the sense that as painful as it gets, letting yourself be open to the joy and pain of love is ultimately still the best game in town. I’d been in a relationship where there was some negativity and felt I had to stand up for myself in a way as well as honor the good and the bad that comes with being with someone. I also knew two different couples (both very close friends) at the time who always called each other “Babe” … and both of those relationships ended not-so-easily. So the song title is a bit like traveling back in time to when they were happy and singing from the perspective of the future. As rough as the bad times seemed, in a larger sense it’s all part of being human, learning, loving and living… I wouldn’t change a thing!
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