December 28

Queen Anne musician makes Spin/KEXP top 10 lists

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Local musician and Queen Anne resident Fences (lead vocals/guitarist Chris Mansfield) has made a number of year-end music top 10 lists with its self-titled debut LP, including Spin’s “10 Best Albums You Might Have Missed This Year,” and KEXP’s staff and volunteer Top 10 Albums of 2010 list.

Spin recommended the song “Girls with Accents”, and said this about Fences’ music:

With his sorrowful, self-deprecating, and charming pop-folk songs with catchy keyboard melodies and lyrics about squandered love, Fences, aka Seattle troubadour Christopher Mansfield, found a fan in Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara, who signed on to produce his self-titled debut. “Everything that Chris writes, melodically and lyrically, has that rare balance of patience and urgency that I love in honest, haunting pop songs,” Quin told SPIN. Agreed.

Fences, which classifies itself as a combination of grime, pop, and shoegaze, played a live show at the KEXP studios here in Seattle this morning, where they performed tracks from their album alongside a new song, “Oh Father.” Listen to that performance streaming here.

Fences is going on tour with Against Me! and Cheap Girls this January and February. Check show dates here.

Photo courtesy of Fences’ Facebook page.


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Chris Mansfield, Fences, KEXP, Spin


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