Fear of Men
“Seer”
Early Fragments (out 2/12 on Kanine)
After a string of impeccable singles (“Mosaic” was my 13th favorite song of 2012), the wistful Brighton dream-pop quartet finally announced something of a debut LP. It looks like it will be made up of mostly the singles, but it will have some new stuff, including this beautiful mid-tempo daydream. In their short career, Fear of Men has always had a knack of packing maximum emotional punch into minimalist arraignments. A lot of that is thanks to vocalist Jessica Weiss, whose direct, heartfelt lyrics are a nice foil to many dream-pop groups’ emotionally nebulous, abstract modus operandi. Depending on how much new material makes the cut, Early Fragments could be one of my albums of the first quarter.
Because it’s brilliant, here’s the video for the affecting, “Mosaic.”
