Listen to lead single “State Line”: Stream Here

From the new album Phantasmagoria out March 27th

“State Line”, Francis says, is about and inspired by "pieces of an epistolary dialogue with my son. Memories in the rearview, obscured by a hot road mirage. The State Line as a symbol of freedom, but not without the loss of naiveté. Seismic shifts beneath all things, and changes I wish I'd welcomed sooner." The song was written on a 1920s Leedy Marimba and a Prophet 5.

"I've always been synth-obsessed, but they never fit the folk narrative," explains Francis when speaking about the genesis of Phantasmagoria. Recording the synthesizers to tape revealed something magical. "Analog gear is alive—physical, tangible. We'd track the synths to 2-inch tape along with the reverbs and delays. You can hear the tape interpreting the synth in real time, as if deciding what to do with it.”