aaamusic | On 01, Dec 2010

Portland, Oregon-based quartet Tu Fawning release their haunting and beautiful new single through City Slang (HEALTH, Caribou, Arcade Fire) on December 13^th. Entitled ‘I Know You Now’, the track is taken from album ‘Hearts on Hold’, set for release at the beginning of 2011.

The video for ‘I Know You Now’ is online now and can be seen here:

Tu Fawning – I Know You Now (Official Video) from City Slang on Vimeo.

Tu Fawning recently told Popmatters that they aim to make their songs “sound as though they were played while a giant walks through a valley, a piano is stabbed in a 1920’s basement, drums are beat on a mountain or that you’re singing in a cave.” – wide ambitions that they undoubtedly achieve throughout the elegant and sophisticated 11 tracks that form Hearts on Hold.

Tu Fawning is a collective of songsmiths and multi-instrumentalists founded by Joe Haege (31Knots, Menomena) and Corrina Repp. After releasing the Secession EP (Polyvinyl) in 2008, the group doubled in size when longtime collaborators Toussaint Perrault and Liza Rietz joined full time last year.

Steeped in dark mystery, texture, and beauty that pours forth from an assortment of instruments including guitar, drums, piano, brass, and samples, Hearts on Hold is a polished, revealing record that perfectly complements Winter’s fire-side warmth and crisp breezes that seductively overcome lungs accustomed to more temperate air. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the album opener and first single, ‘I Know You Now’, a haunting piece where guitars punctuate a sepia-soaked 1920’s waltz, distorted and submerged to hair-raising effect.

Tu Fawning’s Joe Heage is currently touring the UK playing in Menomena as they support The National and is available for interviews. The whole band will return to tour Europe in early 2011.