New York‘s Van Chamberlain has been releasing a steady stream of singles in recent months ahead of the release of new album As Far As The Eye Can See. ‘Miracle Drug‘ kicked things off, what we called “a lush track pitched somewhere between the dreamy haze of dream pop and something more jangly and bright […] decidedly bittersweet in nature, a nascent crush brought to life in all of its longing and shimmering potential.” The came the ruminative ‘Solutions‘ and “anthem of non-conformity” ‘Running After the World‘, before ‘The Right Line‘ furthered the act’s characteristically bittersweet tone while expanding the focus beyond the personal to address the multitude of people facing difficulties. “I didn’t have any of the answers, but I wanted to be a positive force,” as Chamberlain explained. “‘[The Right Line] is a song about wanting to give the people around you a reason to smile. It’s easy to write a song about what you’re going through. This time I wanted to write a song for everyone else.”
The release of As Far As The Eye Can See is fast approaching, and Van Chamberlain are back with brand new track ‘Fantasy TBD’ to keep the momentum going. What might be the band’s most propulsive single to date, the song grapples with the long tail of a break-up, attempting to break free from the spell of a relationship that won’t quite let you go. “We felt like a song about breaking free needed to literally sound like breaking free, so we turned the ’67 Vibrolux up to ten and let the breakup of the amp reflect the breakup in the lyrics,” Chamberlain explains. “This might be the loudest song off the new record, and it also might be the most cathartic.”