Fort Fairfield consists of brothers John and Tom Lück. According to what they write you can also imagine a third member: “Some might say that the cold water of Vättern and the unfriendly winds of Lake Munksjön is the third member of Fort Fairfield.”

They call the music shoegaze electronic, which is a fitting description I think, at least sometimes. I think it’s more varied than that, as I listen to the album “The Dead Sea Scrolls”; from instrumental electronica-pop to ambient music with sampled voices. It’s interesting with this type of music how one chooses to interpret it; you can either try to experience their storytelling about the harsh Jönköping areas or you can get out on personal adventures from the images the music produces.

If you’d like to follow the Lück brothers they also write: “It also formed us to like the nature as thought not in practice.”, as I interpret it the music reflects nature from a distance and not from the experience of enjoying it. Or maybethe  nature as an artificial, tame ideal, symbolized by the budgies. Well, listen for yourself in “The Dead Sea Scrolls” on Spotify. On Myspace you can also find parts of the album.

To complicate things even more, they sent me two new tracks from the upcoming album, tracks with vocals. We now move to the indoor club and enjoy a minimalistic electro soul together with Cosima Lamberth and de Montevert:

Dresden Soul (with Cosima Lambert)
My Boys (with de Montevert)