Portrait
THE HIGHLY ANITCIPATED BREAKOUT ALBUM FROM FRANCES FALCON
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Portrait is (kind of) the first LP from Vancouver based singer-songwriter duo, FRANCES FALCON, made up of Leila Harrison and Matthew Clarke. The duo’s previous incarnation (Honey and the Money) last released a record half a lifetime ago in 2007. Since then a lot has happened; they’ve been raising a family, they became OG youtube sensations with their series “Convos With My 2-Year-Old”, they’ve made movies, and they’ve continued to write music.
This album is a compulsion. There was no reason for it other than the desire to create it. A desire likely against better judgement. There is no career ambitions to serve, no audience to monetize. These songs just wouldn’t go away. They nagged for years, refusing to be forgotten, raged against being abandoned and left to their fate as a bunch of voice memos on a phone. Maybe the only way to get rid of something is to create it.
The songs on Portrait deal with love and loss, getting older, the endurance of lust, the death of identity, failure, disappointment, gratitude, and resilience. They are not songs about being 20. They are songs of middle age.
A portrait is not a true story. It is fraught with subjectivity. Full of accidental alterations and strategic omissions. A vain attempt to be seen while simultaneously shaping how to be seen. But if it is to be anything of value it must be honest in its fraughtness; truthful in its lies.
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