Form presents:
fantasy of a broken heart
Entry Requirements: 18+
Al Nardo and Bailey Wollowitz collided in 2017 at the since-shuttered house venue Heck, in Bushwick.
Immediately bonding over the The Flaming Lips and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the two have intermittently lived and worked together since, in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, but mostly on the road in-between, as shifting parts of pirate crews traversing the country and playing in bands Sloppy Jane, Water From Your Eyes, This is Lorelei, among many more.
fantasy of a broken heart began on these journeys, and when the world sputtered to a halt in 2020, the pair deposited themselves in Al’s native Los Angeles, taking the opportunity to hunker down with their twinned sound and commit to fantasy as a fully-fledged band.
The resulting debut album, Feats of Engineering, is both sweeping epic and a candid record of everyday moments, an emotional scrapbook filled with things that happened and things that didn’t.
Though shaped by the surrealist endeavors of 70s prog-rock and late-90s dream pop, and the logic-eschewing rules of animated worlds, the album is ultimately tethered to reality, to music as sculpted by years of live performance. Whiffs of Americana grasped from cross-country voyages appear in panorama, alongside moments of conflict and collusion, and sometimes flashes of epiphany.
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