Foreign Fields Share “A Little Longer,” A Magically Verbed Out Track | New Album, ‘What It Costs,’ out 9/13

TODAY, the Wisconsin-based ambient indie-rock duo Foreign Fields continue to celebrate the announcement of their fourth full-length album, What It Cost, out September 13th with a magically soft and verbed-out new single, “A Little Longer.” Recorded at Hive in Eau Claire, WI, with engineer Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Volcano Choir) and accompanied by a video companion filmed in Red Wing, Minnesota, “A Little Longer” is the fourth single the duo has teased as they highlight this new chapter of their musical approach buoyed by friendship and the power of collaborative spirit. The bright breeziness of this new single colorfully captures that new band feel of Foreign Fields. It sits as a love letter that Brian Holl of Foreign Fields wrote to himself as he sought out self-compassion to allow himself the time required to become the best version of himself he could be to his wife and family.

WATCH THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR “A LITTLE LONGER” HERE

Brian shares, “Our goal for this record was to break free from the usual Foreign Fields process—just Eric and me spending hours in a room, perfecting every little detail. This time, we wanted to bring others into the mix and create a more live “band” sound. We also aimed to showcase this collaborative process visually as we released the record.

With that in mind, we booked a weekend trip to Red Wing, Minnesota, last November with an open agenda: capture four songs with the guys who helped shape and record them. The concept for the video for “A Little Longer” came naturally. We wanted it to focus purely on the performance, capturing the vibe of all of us together in one room. So, we put Mitch Buss, the filmmaker behind the Red Wing Sessions videos, in the middle of us and hit record.”

Together, Foreign Fields (Brian Holl and Eric Hillman) have made the most of the past decade, releasing three full-length albums and a further series of EPs and companion pieces while returning to their home state of Wisconsin and retreating to the wilderness to write and record painstakingly. Their all-encompassing 2020 third LP, The Beauty Of Survival, was a lush blurring of folk, ambient, and electronica, preceded by 2016’s Take Cover and 2012’s Anywhere But Where I Am. Foreign Fields saw it then, as they do now, as the end of a chapter, the final part of a trilogy where they found answers to the questions they’d previously posed. 

What It Cost is an ode to the many layers of love Brian and Eric have saved for those they choose to spend their days, years, and lives alongside while exploring and then answering what a band-led version of Foreign Fields might sound like. “We hadn’t written about the people in our lives in a while,” Brian explains. “Previously, everything had been quite conceptual. From the get-go, we intended to break that apart with this one.”

“A Little Longer” is available on all streaming platforms here.