Having been playing a series of UK dates, Killing Fields of Ontario (not from anywhere near Canada, or any killing fields for that matter, but originally hailing from Leeds) are set to release their 'How the World Ends’ album on October 28. This will be preceded by lead single ‘Cloud’, out on September 23 on KFoO Records.
The folk-rock five-piece have a gift for turning the unspoken fears and realities of life into a fluid musical product. Combining tender progressions with climactic eruptions of madness, their new album ‘How the World Ends’ is at times elevating in its honesty and beauty, and at others wholly scornful of emotive truths. Wonderfully diverse elements of leftfield pop and contemporary folk are hardened by an immutable grit that spits and attacks, as showcased in its leading single, ‘Cloud’.
‘Cloud’ is a whirlwind of lament delivered with an urgency that will blow you away; its tortured plea reluctantly accepts the energetic orchestration offered by the proficient rhythm section providing the listener with a certain ambiguity. At first offering you its hand, 'Cloud' promptly takes you by the arm on a journey through the warmest of acoustics and the most sensitive of themes.
Watch the video to the track below.
'HTWE' is filled with a shimmering melancholy, reminiscent in style and texture to the orchestral grandeur of Broken Social Scene, while other tracks demonstrate stylistic versatility as well as a more streetwise modern angst like Frightened Rabbit’s ‘Pedestrian Verse’ or the seasoned insight and worldly lyricism of Interpol. Other influences include hints of Augustines, Arcade Fire and Local Natives.
Track Listing
01 Twisted Little Theatre
02 Nothing To Be Frightened
03 When We Were Born
04 Cloud
05 Weight
06 Left In Shadow
07 Creeper
08 Our Place to Drown
09 How The World Ends
10 God Or Country
King Fields Of Ontario play the following live shows:
15th Sept Latest Music Bar, Brighton
19th Oct The Islington, London
3rd Nov The Yardbird, Birmingham
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