Woods / Purple Mountains / Crystal Stilts keyboardists Kyle Forester makes lovely, bucolic pop as a solo artists and will release new solo album “Hearts in Gardens” later this month. Here’s the second track off the record, the sun-dappled, lazy soft and slow track “Marigold.”
A lot has happened since Crystal Stilts’ Kyle Forester dropped his first solo album in 2016—much of which has to do with his busy touring schedules as a member of Woods’ live jam band, as well as the Purple Mountains live collective that never got a chance to spread its wings. With this newfound passion for collaboration, though, Forester has recorded a follow-up to his self-titled debut, which seems him working with his own dream team of a hired band, including production from Woods’ Jarvis Taveniere and harp contributions from Mary Lattimore.
Forester is sharing the second single from his forthcoming Hearts in Gardens, which is a hushed experimental number that sounds less like the dense heartland rock of The War on Drugs than the first. “Marigold” instead smears a number of surprising instrumentals together to form a hazy, psychedelic pastiche of sounds to accompany his acoustic guitar.
Kyle Forester: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar, Hampus Öhman-Frölund: Drums, Paul Jenkins: Bass, Sam Kulik: Trombone
Michael O’Neill: Guitar, Mary Lattimore: Harp on “On the Way Down”
releases February 21, 2020
All Songs by Kyle Forester.
The Fat Angel Sings 