Foreign Fields Announce New Album, ‘What It Costs,’ out 9/13 | Shares the Vulnerable “Show Me Love”

Today, the lush ambient indie-rock Wisconsin-based duo Foreign Fields is excited to announce their fourth full-length album, What It Costs, due on September 13th via Nettwerk. With ten newly-formed songs, What It Cost opens up a new chapter of Foreign Fields. Buoyed by friendship and the power of collaborative spirit, it’s as loose and free as they’ve ever sounded. It retains the emotive shimmer that has always provided the band’s beating heart – something that Brian and Eric were determined not to lose. 

Brian shares, “We tried to keep the spirit of the band right there at the center: we had guitars, we had a piano, we had a bass and drums, and that is what we really leaned on. The story of this album is that of a band record. It is. We tried to stay true to whatever happened in the room together. This album is a snapshot of that time.” 

WATCH THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR “SHOW ME LOVE” HERE

Today, we get another taste of what’s to come with Eric Hollman’s personal and vulnerable love letter to his wife and children with the new single, “Show Me Love,” out on all streaming platforms here. Following “Damages,” “Faultlines,” and “Glowworm,” “Show Me Love” was recorded at Hive in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, with engineer Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Volcano Choir). This new music collection 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, and we felt like we knew everything about going into the record. From the get-go, we intended to break that apart with this one,” Brian shares.

Together, Foreign Fields 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 painstakingly write and record. Their all-encompassing 2020 third LP, The Beauty Of Survival, was a lush blurring of folk, ambient, and electronica, preceded by 2017’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.