1. Art and Diseño

Breakfast in Fur
Flyaway Garden
(Bar/None)
February 3, 2015
With the February 3, 2015 release of Flyaway Garden on Bar/None Records, Breakfast
In Fur showcases their full maturation as a band, drawing on influences as varied as
sixties pop, British IDM, avant-garde jazz, psychedelia, shoegaze, ambient music and
punk. Recorded in various studios, living rooms, and attics throughout the Hudson
Valley, Flyaway Garden is an intricate soundscape encompassing an eclectic mix of
instrumentation and musical styles.
Moving around upstate New York in his early twenties, Dan Wolfe found himself living in
a friend’s laundry room in Ithaca. It was here he began experimenting on an old four
track recorder and developing the aesthetic that would later evolve into Breakfast In Fur.
In the summer of 2007 Wolfe moved again and landed in the small mountain town of
New Paltz, NY. Once settled, Wolfe began to devote all his time to late night/early
morning recording sessions that resulted in a collection of layered, intimate pop songs
with foundations in folk and psychedelic music.
Coaxed by a friend into taking a break from his reclusive music making, Wolfe met artist
and musician Kaitlin Van Pelt at a party and soon afterwards shared with her the
recordings he had been working on. Wolfe asked Van Pelt to sing alongside him on
these tracks and together they finished the songs and produced hundreds of hand-made
CD-R’s that they distributed throughout the Hudson Valley. They called their project and
the eponymous EP that resulted “Breakfast in Fur”, released as a 10” vinyl on Analog
Edition Records in late 2011. These recordings would be a starting point for the project.
Mike Hollis, a guitarist and one of Wolfe’s first friends and roommates in New Paltz,
played live music with several groups locally and insisted they start a band to play
Breakfast In Fur’s songs live. Soon Wolfe, Van Pelt and Hollis were writing new material
and experimenting with various collaborators as they played shows around the Hudson
Valley and New York City. Together with drummer Chris Walker, Breakfast In Fur started
working on the recordings that would become their debut full-length album, Flyaway
Garden.
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Brendan Bourke
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While maintaining elements of the pastoral folk of their first EP on songs like “Portrait”
and “Whisper”, Flyaway Garden also sees the band moving into more aggressive, punk
influenced territories with tracks such as “Shape” and “Setting Stone”. British IDM and
ambient music play a significant role on their new album, most notably in the electronic
textures that accent, and occasionally envelop these recordings. Perhaps best
representing Breakfast In Fur’s multi-faceted aesthetic is their cover of Neil Young’s
“Cripple Creek Ferry”, which brings together their many musical influences into a single
recording. At once a dreamy pop song, a pulsing work of dissonant electronic music, an
homage to a classic rock hero, and a prog-rock mini-epic in three movements, Breakfast
In Fur’s production of “Cripple Creek Ferry” is a highly original and complex
recontextualizing of Neil Young’s song that both embraces the past, and moves far
beyond it
As Wolfe told the Miscreant Fanzine about the lyrical content of their latest album, “the
new record has a lot of songs about time and identity— like when you look at a
photograph of yourself as a child... how are you that person? There’s a lot about that
kind of feeling.” These questions of identity and the passing of time crop up all over
Flyaway Garden. Tellingly the cover art features an illustrated version of Wolfe as a four
year old overtaken by flowing layers of color.
Now performing live as Dan Wolfe, Kaitlin Van Pelt, Mike Hollis and Chris Walker,
Flyaway Garden marks Breakfast In Fur’s transition from the quiet bedroom folk of their
first EP into the experimental psychedelic rock of their new album.
For additional information on Breakfast in fur please contact:
Canvas Media
Brendan Bourke
68 Jay Street – Ste. 419 • Brooklyn, NY • 11201
Tel. 347 564 2927 • E-mail: [email protected] • canvasmediapr.com