White Fence

“Tim Presley is a member of the bands Darker My Love and the Strange Boys, which do variations of dirtied-up psychedelic pop. White Fence is his third band and much more idiosyncratic. It’s just Mr. Presley making songs as complicated as he wants, with his multitracked asthmatic voice and his gift for weird, wayward song hooks. read more…

“Tim Presley is a member of the bands Darker My Love and the Strange Boys, which do variations of dirtied-up psychedelic pop. White Fence is his third band and much more idiosyncratic. It’s just Mr. Presley making songs as complicated as he wants, with his multitracked asthmatic voice and his gift for weird, wayward song hooks. On White Fence, just released on CD by Woodsist, drum rhythms stumble and recohere; chord changes are half-forgotten or blown altogether. Audio quality changes from track to track or even in the middle of a song, and so does the music’s speed. The album sounds as if it were mastered on a cassette machine with failing batteries. This whole enterprise is way, way moth eaten: the Syd Barrett/1960s Los Angeles garage-punk influences, the dirty-on-purpose sound quality, the overmodulated guitar leads.

By a certain logic it should be a stone loser. But so much in music comes down to conviction. There’s something ritual about these songs, as if Mr. Presley had been carrying them in his head, with all their details, for a long time. Listen even once, and they’re hard to shake. All of Mr. Presley’s strange touches start to seem significant and obsessively desired: a short background sigh, a few seconds of harmonica or xylophone, a new strain plopped into the middle of a song that leads nowhere, a guitar solo that’s longer than it needs to be. It’s mannered and indirect music, but he’s a poet of that.”

— BEN RATLIFF, The New York Times

News

• Pitchfork announces White Fence to play ATP Festival May 17, 2013
• The Austin Chronicle reviews White Fence at Austin Psych Fest Apr 29, 2013
• Pitchfork reviews White Fence's Cyclops Reap Apr 10, 2013
• LA Weekly interviews White Fence's Tim Presley Apr 9, 2013
• Pitchfork streams White Fence's new album Cyclops Reap in advance Apr 8, 2013
• NME reviews White Fence's Cyclops Reap Apr 8, 2013
• Brooklyn Vegan features new White Fence album and tour dates Apr 8, 2013
• Baeble Music features White Fence and track, "To the Boy" Apr 5, 2013
• Spin talks to White Fence about upcoming album Cyclops Reap Mar 21, 2013
• Fader streams White Fence new track, “Fragility” Mar 21, 2013
• Tiny Mixtapes features White Fence, Cyclops Reap tracklist, and tour dates Mar 6, 2013
• Listen to "Pink Gorilla", new track from White Fence Feb 18, 2013
• Pitchfork premieres new White Fence track "Pink Gorilla" Feb 15, 2013
• Hear White Fence's Scuzzy Bluster Bomb 'Pink Gorilla' Feb 15, 2013
• Filter Magazine features White Fence track, "Pink Gorilla" Feb 15, 2013
• White Fence reveals the very loud “Pink Gorilla” from his new album, Cyclops Reap Feb 15, 2013
• Gothamist feature on Ty Segall & White Fence collaboration Hair May 16, 2012
• White Fence: Interview with Tim Presley May 15, 2012
• White Fence Family Perfume Vol. 1 May 10, 2012
• White Fence Hair Interview Apr 25, 2012
• White Fence to release new Green Balloon 7" Apr 23, 2012
• Ty Segall & White Fence Perform “Scissor People” in Room 205 Apr 9, 2012
• White Fence in SF Weekly Mar 9, 2012
• White Fence premiere new track on Pitchfork Mar 9, 2012
• White Fence "It Will Never Be (Edit)" on Pitchfork Jan 25, 2012

Tour Dates

Date	Venue	Location	With	Tickets
Thu 6/13/2013	Brooklyn Bowl	Brooklyn, New York	Panache Northside Festival Showcase with Mac DeMarco
Fri 6/14/2013	Knitting Factory (Brooklyn)	Brooklyn, New York	Northside Festival
Fri 6/21/2013	The Fillmore	San Francisco, California	Father John Misty
Sat 6/22/2013	Glasshouse	Pomona, California	Father John Misty
Tue 7/30/2013	The Bunkhouse	Las Vegas, Nevada,	Jessica Pratt
Wed 7/31/2013	Holland Project	Reno, Nevada	Jessica Pratt
Fri 8/2/2013	Pickathon Festival	Pendarvis Farm, Oregon
Sat 8/3/2013	Pickathon Festival	Pendarvis Farm, Oregon
Sun 8/4/2013	Neumos	Seattle, Washington	Jessica Pratt
Mon 8/5/2013	Biltmore Cabaret	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Jessica Pratt
Wed 8/7/2013	Rickshaw Stop	San Francisco, California	Jessica Pratt
Thu 8/8/2013	Don Quixote’s	Santa Cruz, California	Jessica Pratt
Sat 8/10/2013	Troubadour	Los Angeles, California	Jessica Pratt
Sun 8/11/2013	Casbah (San Diego)	San Diego, California	Jessica Pratt
Sun 12/1/2013	ATP End of an Era Part 2 Festival	Camber Sands, United Kingdom	Ty Segall, Jonathan Toubin + more