"A weathered and clever songwriter, Broadsides & Ephemera shows Field Assembly as a project that harmoniously removes the slash between singer-songwriter." Dan Sylvester, EXCLAIM! Magazine
"mellow, sparse, and heartfelt... (Broadsides & Ephemera) is a beautifully modest debut" - July 2009 Discorder Magazine.
"(Broadsides & Ephemera) is a gorgeous tapestry of songs that are both vintage Fox while bold enough to explore new musical surroundings, almost as if the boy from the county finally wandered into the city and immediately hated what he saw" - June 2009 WAMM Magazine.
Field Assembly is the current recording and performing project of songwriter/recordist L. Adam Fox. He currently calls Windsor, Ontario his home but has spent time in Toronto and in the farm he grew up on near the outskirts of Colchester South on the north shore of Lake Erie.
Adam fronted the band Ten Year Drought for the better part of a decade, a period which saw the release of an EP and two full-length albums. Field Assembly continues to evolve his often dark interpretations on conventional and abstract north american folk music. The new album, Broadsides and Ephemera exposes themes of permanence, roots, family, and regret on a canvas of gorgeous melodies and subtle instrumentation.
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now you know my terrible secret---for years a poppy album has been struggling to come out of me, and i've been suppressing it to the best of my ability. it's only when members of the craftier sex do me wrong and stir psycho johnny from his slumber that some of those bits manage to squeeze through, and you end up with love songs for nihilists. or something like that.
