LEVERAGE MODELS Forensic Accounting EP
Out today on cassette & digital, sparkling premiere on YVYNYL.
We’re all in. The music of Shannon Fields has long rung through our halls, pushing us to turn the lights off, to peek through that door we’ve never opened, to close our eyes and imagine we’re on the gravely edge of some Ozark cliff. To think of Shannon, growing up a breath away from us in Missouri, is to know that our world’s got a tilt to it…and we’re all wearing slippery shoes.
Here we are. Listening like it’s the first time:
DOWNLOAD: Leverage Models “Fleeced (Before the Lord)”
I don’t know if it’s the rain, the dimming light, or the look on everyone’s faces….but this song just does it.
More vibe farming at YVYNL, who revealed “Fleeced (Before the Lord) today….
“…suddenly you realize you’ve been slowly seduced. The bobbing head of the the cobra serpent has been staring you in the eyes. Then, whoa. This sucker bites hard, fangs bury deep into your subconscious and beg to you to listen again and again.”
Shannon Fields is Leverage Models, the newborn solo identity of Kansas City native and Brooklyn expatriate Shannon Fields, created recently after having given up on cities, longstanding collaborations, himself, and a few shameful things, and run away to live on a small farm in upstate New York. Forensic Accounting is the second EP in a ground-shaking three-EP series. Described by The Guardian as “Roxy Music-era romantic pop”, Leverage Models rides along the cliffside of love and violence — with the radio turned up and blasting funk, Philip Glass, opera, and Suicide. It’s familiar, but it’s entirely new.
Shannon is joined by players Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas), Jeff Gretz (Zao), Jon Natchez (Beirut, Yellow Ostrich), and Kelly Pratt (Arcade Fire, Beirut). The EP was recorded and mixed by D. James Goodwin (Bobby, Devo). Well, alright.
BUY:
Leverage Models “Forensic Accounting”
CASSETTE: Hometapes
DIGITAL: iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp
More about Leverage Models:
Shannon entered the Brooklyn music scene a few years back with the founding one of its most fearless, ego-less, and often confusing outsider “pop” groups, Stars Like Fleas (who went on hiatus recently after a tumultuous year of touring that included performances at the NY MoMA, PS1, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and other notable shows throughout Europe). Although he has been tapped by contemporary new music titans like Rhys Chatham and John Zorn, composed for fashion shows and short films, has been kindly spoken of in the pages of The New York Times, Paper Magazine, The Village Voice, Pitchfork, Wire Magazine, &c., and has worked as producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist with a bunch of notable local bands (Helado Negro, Stars Like Fleas, Doveman, The Silent League, Family Dynamics, etc), Shannon has always maintained a slightly anonymous, uncharismatic, self-effacing ‘background’ presence in the local public eye. Leverage Models’ first recordings are being quietly and quickly released as a series of digital and cassette EPs in collaboration with Hometapes and Something in Construction (Memory Tapes, Loney Dear) in the UK.
