Crossbill Records are excited to announce the release of Garrett Pierce’s new record ‘Eyes Wide In The Fire’. Accompanying that announcement is a video for the lead single ‘A World on Fire’ which we have the pleasure of premiering below.
Strange premonitions.
Figures dancing around a fire, adorned in ritual masks.
Years before the California fires that took his father’s home and almost burned his own, and a decade before that, when Garrett’s obsession over myth-making rites sparked the album titled ‘All Masks’ – these images made their way into his songs.
Eyes Wide In The Fire is Garrett Pierce’s fifth album – a project penned alone over several years, but only fully realized after collaborating with producer/multi-instrumentalist Max Hart (War on Drugs, Melissa Ethridge).
The arrangements move between the intimacy of a single guitar & voice, to lush keyboards, strings, and multi-layered guitars – a homage to both his roots in the Los Angeles cafés (where he first shared his songs) as well as the Bay Area music halls where those songs found their widest audience.
With a fifteen-year career spanning five albums and several side bands, Pierce has always centred his songs around the lyrics. Inspired equally by his father’s collection of 70’s singer-songwriters and artists like Neutral Milk Hotel, Elliot Smith and Low.
Garrett Pierce on ‘A World on Fire’
“I penned ‘A World On Fire’ as I was expecting my first child. At the time, I was filled with a lot of anxiety toward bringing a child into the world, and these lyrics were an exploration of those emotions, and all of the joy and concern that comes with fatherhood. Little did I know that months later, an actual forest fire would devastate my town, and nearly burn my neighborhood in Sonoma, CA. And years after that, a separate fire would burn down my father’s home during a global pandemic.
“‘A World On Fire’ was meant to be a tender and earnest lullaby of sorts, but after recent years, has taken on a new meaning.”
The video is directed by Travis White (who has worked for the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, SF and is an independent cinematographer) and is inspired by the young children who have endured the pain of recent times.
‘Eyes Wide In The Fire’ is available on May 21, 2021 via Crossbill Records.
https://garrettpierce.bandcamp.com/