SAFETY TOWN – FAKE IT
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE
Tomorrow, Safety Town (the moniker of Chicago musician Jackson Davis) his brand new LP, Fake It (via Earth Libraries), alongside the recordβs final single, βOnly A Dream.β
Speaking on his brand new album, Davis wrote:
“This album was mostly inspired by my experiences in my 20s, processing stress, change, and the loss of individuals in my life. While I often found myself getting down thinking about a lot of this, by trying to package these feelings into accessible and at times pop-inspired songs, it really helped me process things and feel proud of an ability to package darker subject matter in a light-hearted way. Musically, I had been listening to a large number of artists, but Animal Collective, LCD Soundsystem, New Order, MGMT, Washed Out, and many others were key influences.
Aside from some mixing help from Chris Mathien, drums on ‘Sunshine’ from Jake Besen, and guitar parts by Duncan Reilly on ‘Fake It’ and ‘Sunshine,’ this album was written and produced by myself in my Chicago apartment. I had slowly become more and more obsessed with the world of modular synthesizers and unique sound design as I was writing this, which leads to many songs having a more traditional structure but with added textural and ambient elements from synths. Recording this taught me so much about ways to push my recording techniques, get more confident with vocals, and put together many seemingly disparate styles.
The album felt very disjointed at first, with me writing a ton of songs and choosing between them. But when I picked out the songs I liked most, I realized they all had this common theme of expressing how Iβve generally felt navigating my 20s. We are confronted by so much change and it really gets hammered in how our reactions to events influence our lives. We are really in control of what we do and it is up to us to figure out how to process the world and find meaning. The album was definitely a cathartic experience and in writing it allowed me to process a lot of the feelings Iβve had lately.
On one hand, I tried to present a very melodic album with a large number of instruments and synthesizer tones in a way that still lies in the indie pop realm. When listening to the lyrics, there is definitely a lot of darker subject matter, but I wanted to show people that itβs ok to and even necessary to at times to constantly strive for that idealistic state we all are seeking. Sometimes, we need to feign happiness for our own sake and progress, and often times in doing so, we actually get closer to that ideal state.”
Safety Town
Fake It
(Earth Libraries)
Release Date: December 10, 2021
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