Orange is an unstill life, a bowlful of new White Fence concepts for guitar band, grown larger through thoughts, feelings/SONGS. Rock ‘n balladry play with genre in uncrowded space. Orange is KILLER POP thru clean lines of power, outlined with an emphatic/unalterable (minimalist) frame. Dark magik at its most bright! A trance-like chronology of consciousness/SONGS captained by producer Ty Segall in opalescent diamond tightness and ice fidelity.
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White Fence announce new Ty Segall-produced album, share “Your Eyes”
Brooklyn Vegan
Tim Presley is back with his first White Fence album in six years. It’s titled Orange and will be out April 24 via Drag City. He made it with friend and collaborator Ty Segall at his Harmonizer II studio in Los Angeles. Ty plays drums on the album, as does Dylan Hadley (Cate Le Bon’s band), Alice Sandahl (ex-La Luz) plays keyboards, and Tim handled everything else.
“Love/loss, addiction/rehabilitation, and a good long look in the mirror (by way of a shop window reflection in San Francisco),” is what Tim says the themes of the album are. “But also the absurdity of life….. I wanted to sing my little heart out. Sing life.”
White Fence Announce First Album in Seven Years
Pitchfork
Tim Presley has announced the first new White Fence album since 2019’s I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk. Produced by Ty Segall, Orange arrives April 24 via Drag City. Star of Julia Ducournau’s Titane—and Presley’s wife—Agathe Rousselle helmed the music video for lead single “Your Eyes.” Watch it below.
In press materials, Presley said “Your Eyes” is about “Love/loss, addiction/rehabilitation, and a good long look in the mirror (by way of a shop window reflection in San Francisco). But also the absurdity of life….. I wanted to sing my little heart out. Sing life.”
Tim Presley Talks White Fence, DRINKS, Collaborations, and More
Weirdo Music Forever
Tim Presley is one of our favorite artists here at WMF for a host of reasons: his steady quality musical output under the White Fence moniker, the significant role he played in a crucial era of post-punk mainstay The Fall, and his contributions as one half of DRINKS are three of those reasons, but there are even more topics we’ve been eager to cover with Tim. Curious about his diverse musical endeavors as well as his upcoming 2019 album, we recently had to the pleasure of conversing with Tim about these subjects and others, including his visual art, past collaborations with Jack Name and Ty Segall, and his return to simple, melodic songwriting.
White Fence announces new album, I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk, shares “Lorelei”
Consequence of Sound
Titled I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk, it’s set to hit shelves January 25th via Drag City. The 13-track collection will serve as Presley’s seventh under his White Fence banner and long-awaited follow-up to 2014’s For the Recently Found Innocent.
The Bay Bridged features White Fence’s new track, “Before He Met Her”
The Bay Bridged
“Before He Met Her (Decomposing Lime)” is a brand new track from former city denizen Tim Presley’s White Fence that dropped just yesterday. It’s a tripped out rock anthem reminiscent of Sgt. Pepper’s-era Beatles.
Upstate Live announces White Fence’s show at BSP
Upstate Live
White Fence released For the Recently Found Innocent this past July and have garnered nothing but raves reviews. This latest record sees him re-team with Ty Segall to produce a beautiful set of elaborately crafted songs, harmony vocalizations and trippin’ guitar tones that conjure a fantasy about reality.
Blare Magazine premiers photos from White Fence’s show at The Garrison
Blare Magazine
Tim Presley had made some outstanding music under the pseudonym WHITE FENCE and if you haven’t had the time to fall down that rabbit hole, you might want to dig up Hair, Family Perfume, and Cyclops Reap.
Alt Citizen puts White Fence on the list of must-sees at CMJ
Alt Citizen
Singer songwriter Tim Presley, aka White Fence, is prolific, to say the least. His sound mixes the carefree attitude of ’60s psych-pop with the raw sensibilities of garage rock — meaning, get ready to dance, sway, and freak out.
Exclaim! reviews White Fence new single
Exclaim!
The single, the 12th installment of Famous Class’s Less Artists More Condos series, flirts with a blur of sped-up merry-go-round sounds before gelling into a hazy strum of acoustic guitar, soul-coating xylophone and a crackling backbeat…
Death and Taxes stream new White Fence single
Death and Taxes
The White Fence track, “Nero (Has a Lot to Think About)” is a tasty slice of psychedelic pop—something you might expect to find in a “Nuggets” one-off and wonder how it never blew up. A repeating riff on the xylophone makes for a unique, but incredibly catchy, track which closes with an unadulterated ‘60s organ freakout…
Vice reviews White Fence’s new music video
Vice
The first ever White Fence video features their sunny garage pop accompanied with video of Tim Presley getting the ever-living shit beat out of him, giving himself jailhouse tats, beating up corrections officers, and ultimately getting put to death…
Las Vegas Weekly reviews White Fence’s For the Recently Found Innocent
Las Vegas Weekly
For the Recently Found Innocent picks up from last year’s choice Cyclops Reap writing-wise—showcasing Presley’s clever hooks and retro-British (though he’s not) constructs—but in a less fuzzy, less fragmented sonic environment.
Spin reviews White Fence’s For the Recently Found Innocent
Spin
For The Recently Found Innocent is as much a lesson in self-awareness as it is a thoroughly enjoyable listen. Over the last four years, Presley has recorded at a relentless rate in his Echo Park home…
Paste reviews White Fence’s For the Recently Found Innocent
Paste Magazine
For the Recently Found Innocent is a fantastic-sounding record, the production bringing to life the small details that make it more than a retread or homage. Presley clearly moves to the beat of his own tripped-out drummer…
Artrocker reviews White Fence’s For The Recently Found Innocent
Artrocker
There are have been some great psych albums this year, but White Fence set the standard for the return to the 60’s feel and you’ll have many hours of enjoyment getting lost in it’s myriad of psychedelic abandon.
Pitchfork announces White Fences split with Jack Name
Pitchfork
The White Fence split is out on September 2. It features the track “Nero (Has a Lot to Think About)” and is backed by a track called “Belly Full of Blood” from Los Angeles singer/songwriter Jack Name. Listen to a preview of both tracks above.
Brooklyn Rail interviews White Fence
Brooklyn Rail
Tim Presley is a four-track small room wizard crafting lo-fi California sunshine punk for people who loathe leaving their homes. His lyrics are simultaneously throwaway and intensely personal—arid yet uncomfortably precise.
White Fence’s For the Recently Found Innocent featured on NPR’s First Listen
NPR
Presley uses White Fence as a proving ground for ideas that, as of For the Recently Found Innocent, have steered toward the gentle pomp of late-’60s psychedelic pop, rock and folk.
Sound Blab reviews White Fence’s For the Recently Found Innocent
Sound Blab
The prolific Tim Presley, with band/moniker White Fence, returns with For the Recently Found Innocent. He’s joined by that irrepressible wunderkind Ty Segall, who provides the garage studio space, production house…
Brooklyn Vegan features White Fence’s “Like That”
Brooklyn Vegan
In other news, White Fence have finally released a song from their forthcoming Ty Segall-produced album, For the Recently Found Innocent which is out July 22 via Drag City. “Like That” is a mod stomper in the early Who style and is pretty good.
Bay Bridged announces White Fence’s For the Recently Found Innocent
Bay Bridged
Tim Presley brings his project White Fence to Phono del Sol on July 12 in Potrero del Sol Park in San Francisco and, just ten days later, he’s releasing his fifth full-length album under that moniker, entitled ‘For the Recently Found Innocent’…
Consequence of Sound features White Fence’s “Like That”
Consequence of Sound
Lo-fi psych rocker Tim Presley, aka White Fence, has unveiled “Like That”, the first track from his new Ty-Segall produced album To The Recently Found Innocent.
Spin features White Fence recording “For the Recently Found Innocent”
Spin
During the four-plus years he’s been performing as White Fence, the prolific songwriter’s approach has largely been the same: He writes hundreds of scuzzy-riffed songs in his Echo Park apartment…
Tiny Mix Tapes announces White Fence’s For the Recently Found Innocent
Tiny Mix Tapes
Not only is this the first time White Fence has ventured out of his bedroom to lay down his sweet, 60s-tinged fuzz jams, but he’s also roped in other humans to play on the album too, notably in the form of garage renaissance man Ty Segall…
Exclaim announces White Fence’s fall tour
Exclaim
…California garage dweller Tim Presley has been cranking out albums as White Fence for a while now, and as he prepares to issue To the Recently Found Innocent next month, he has booked a North American tour in support of the album.
The Bay Bridged announces White Fence’s inclusion to Phono Del Sol
The Bay Bridged
He’ll be joined at the fest by garage-psych powerhouse White Fence, whose Phono performance arrives just ten days before the arrival of their Ty Segall-produced To The Recently Found Innocent LP on Drag City.
Exclaim announces White Fence’s To the Recently Found Innocent
Exclaim!
After plenty of work for Castle Face Records, Presley has completed his first White Fence LP for Drag City. The album is called To the Recently Found Innocent and was produced by Ty Segall.
Vanyaland announces White Fence’s To The Recently Found Innocent
Vanyaland
Lo-fi psych rocker Tom Presley, a.k.a. White Fence, has signed to Drag City for the release of his sixth studio album. Due out July 22nd, To The Recently Found Innocent was produced by friend and frequent collaborator Ty Segall…
Consequence of Sound announces White Fence’s To the Recently Found Innocent
Consequence of Sound
Lo-fi psych rocker Tim Presley, a.k.a. White Fence, has signed to Drag City for the release of his sixth studio album. Due out July 22nd, To The Recently Found Innocent was produced by friend and frequent collaborator Ty Segall…
The Bottom String announces White Fence to headline Phuzz Phest 2014
The Bottom String
Headlining this year’s Phuzz Phest, which will take place at various venues around Winston Salem from April 4-6 will be No Age, Kool Keith, White Fence and Jessica Lea Mayfield, providing an incredibly rounded group…
PopMatters reviews White Fence’s Live in San Francisco
PopMatters
Live in San Francisco is not just a live document, but an alive document, one that celebrates a band that’s hitting its stride and the hard work of its songwriter, but it also shows the pure joy…
The Bay Bridged reviews White Fence’s show at the Great American Music Hal
The Bay Bridged
Musically, White Fence played a solid set of straightforward garage-rock — forgoing the studio trickery of their LPs and becoming a bit more down-to-earth in the process.
Prefix posts photos of White Fence playing ATP: End of an Era
Prefix
Photos include co-curators Loop, Comets On Fire, Fennesz, 23 Skidoo, White Fence, Hookworms, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Dirty Beaches, The KVB, Kandodo and The Dismemberment Plan.
Stereogum features White Fence’s “Today’s Lesson”
Stereogum
And Bay Area psych weirdo White Fence has turned in a jangly, flowery cover of “Today’s Lesson,” a 1991 banger from the crustcore band Filth. The White Fence version does not sound anything like the Filth one, and you can hear it below.
The Bay Bridged recaps White Fence’s performance at Woodsist Festival
The Bay Bridged
White Fence certainly had the louder, garage rock part of the festival covered but could have played even louder and taken full advantage of echoes and acoustics.
NBC San Diego interviews White Fence
NBC San Diego
I recently spoke with Presley as he was driving into the United States, narrowly escaping a rigorous inspection at the Canadian/U.S. border.
SSG Music posts photos of White Fence’s performances at Pickathon
SSG Music
The performances White Fence put on both Friday and Saturday were mind-blowing, and are sure to set many imaginations ablaze.
Popthomology posts photos of White Fence’s show at Neumos
Popthomology
..perhaps what I like most about Tim Presley’s music is that it is both contradictory and complimentary within itself: retro-ly familiar yet utterly unique and modern…
The Bay Bridged post photos of White Fence’s performance at Pickathon
The Bay Bridged
White Fence played their first set in the main stage area, where their raucous sound had plenty of room to breathe.
Spin posts the Pickathon live stream schedule featuring White Fence
Spin
livestream performances by Divine Fits, Vile, Van Etten, Bird, and Parquet Courts, in addition to White Fence, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Lightning Dust…
PopMatters reviews White Fence’s S/T
PopMatters
White Fence serves as a journey through the mind and influences of Tim Presley and is a solid listen for any fans of lo-fi psychedelic rock.
The L Magazine posts photos from White Fence’s performance at Northside Fest
The L Magazine
The L Magazine posts photos from White Fence’s performance at Northside Fest
Brooklyn Vegan features White Fence
Brooklyn Vegan
White Fence’s latest album is Cyclops Reap which is out on Castle Face and can be streamed via Rdio or Spotify.
Brooklyn Vegan announces that White Fence’s show at Northside Festival is on sale
Brooklyn Vegan
As mentioned, Mac DeMarco and White Fence will be playing the Panache Northside showcase at Brooklyn Bowl on June 13.
Pitchfork announces White Fence to play ATP Festival
Pitchfork
“…Joining Loop, Mogwai, the Pop Group, Dirty Beaches, and more at the final weekend are Ty Segall, White Fence…”
The Austin Chronicle reviews White Fence at Austin Psych Fest
The Austin Chronicle
“It was poetic – dozens of scorching garage rock shredders blowing our heads off from one general anonymous direction. It was delirium, the good kind…”
Pitchfork reviews White Fence’s Cyclops Reap
Pitchfork
“It’s a song slathered in acid-burnt fuzz where Presley stretches out with an echoing psych guitar solo after hammering out a simple, solid power chord hook…”
LA Weekly interviews White Fence’s Tim Presley
LA Weekly
“Given the maturity and insight of White Fence’s previous releases and his collaborations with it-boy Ty Segall, it shouldn’t shock anyone that the act’s newest record, Cyclops Reap, is quite brilliant…”
Pitchfork streams White Fence’s new album Cyclops Reap in advance
Pitchfork
White Fence’s new album Cyclops Reap is streaming on Pitchfork Advance.
Brooklyn Vegan features new White Fence album and tour dates
Brooklyn Vegan
“Tim Presley doesn’t seem to be running out of songs and this is another quality batch of paisley-scented psychedelia…
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