New Song Of The Day: Emily Fairlight – The Escape

Here’s today’s new song…Emily Fairlight presents us with a new tune and a new video clip.

The song is The Escape, recorded in Austin, Texas. Look for Emily’s new album later this year.

Record company blurb:

Wellington-based poet and alt-folk songstress Emily Fairlight is thrilled to release her brand new single, ‘The Escape’, accompanied by a nostalgic official video.

Recorded with Doug Walseth of The Cat’s Eye Studio in Austin, Texas, and featuring Cully Symington (Bright Eyes and Okkervil River) and multi-instrumentalist Kullen Fuchs, ‘The Escape’ offers up achingly honest and beautifully-penned lyrics delivered with a melancholic melody and Emily’s breathtakingly haunting vocals.

The video, directed by Julian Vares and written by Emily herself, is reminiscent of New Zealand summers in the 1980’s and a time of innocence and simplicity.

“The video I hoped would inspire a sense of nostalgia, about how much easier things were when we were kids, hence the temporary escape from the responsibilities of adult life.
I guess I see myself as someone who didn’t fully grow up, never bought the house or had the kids, and that in itself can be a kind of purgatory. So the video is like a brief insight to those two different lives, how they relate, and how they separate” – Emily Fairlight

Emily has been composing and performing for over a decade, playing throughout New Zealand, Australia and the USA. With a new band featuring Ben Cole (The Datsuns, Joint Chiefs) on drums,Andrew Bain (Fur Patrol, Svelte) on bass, and occasionally Finn Johannson on guitar, Emily is ready to release her sophomore album mid-2018.