How Love Bends (Vinyl LP & 7")

Reb Fountain returns with How Love Bends. A natural evolution of 2021's IRIS, this promises to be a sonically rich, musing on the transformative power of love. Blending haunting melodies with expansive, atmospheric layers and  Fountain’s “otherworldly” voice. Highlighted by the alt-pop anthem "Forever”, the new album is one to evoke both intimacy and grandeur.  

Renowned for her captivating performances and introspective storytelling, Reb Fountain has established herself as one of Aotearoa’s most genre-defying musicians.Navigating between minimalist arrangements and powerful crescendos, How Love Bends offers a timeless exploration of love's intensity and complexity. Unapologetic, vulnerable, heartbroken and commanding; this is How Love Bends.   - Flying Out

Love is a first kiss, a late night call, an ache of longing that can break your heart or a long drive with the top down to anywhere but here.  Love can equally be contained, repressed and longed for as much as it can save, nurture and embolden.  Love is a measure of our humanity or how lost we have become.  

 

In her new album, How Love Bends, Reb Fountain muses on the transformative power of love.  Imprinted with our fear, desire, hurt and hope as much as it is an expression of our suffering and joy, love is an ever-evolving shapeshifter that lives in our marrow; magnetic and emergent it is loosed by its archer to ride on the wind.  

 

Tracklist

1. Come Down
2. How Love Bends
3. City
4. Ring Ring
5. Over Joy/ed
6. Nothing Like
7. He Commands You to Jump into the Sea
8. Drake
9. Forever
10. Everyday Fitness
11. Memorial

Bonus 7"

1. How Bizarre
2. The Gambler