Mt. Mountain frontman releases debut single 'Mr. Fair', accompanying Wes Anderson-esque video, directed by Sam Eastcott.

Stephen Bailey, frontman for Perth slow burning psych purveyors Mt. Mountain has released his first single Mr. Fair from his debut solo album Silo. The single was premiered on Double J on Monday night during Henry Wagons' Tower of Song.

Mr. Fair is an Appalachian folk ramble on the notion of fairness, and how there isn't always someone you can call to balance the scales of inequity. It's imbued with old world folk harmonies and haunting flute that sound like they could've been recorded at a church congregation 60 years ago.

The accompanying video -  directed by Sam Eastcott and premiered at happy - follows Bailey making a journey through the now re-grown bushfire ravaged Yarloop area of Western Australia. He is alone in an isolated place, making a pilgrimage with a hidden object to make peace with something, or someone. Beautifully framed and shot on nostalgic super 8, Eastcott's direction recalls Wes Anderson and Sofia Coppola's idiosyncratic styles, deliberate mise en scene and classic washed out colour grading.  

Silo is a little more disparate than Stephen's work with Mt. Mountain - It's bursting with classic pop cuts - some steeped in sonic revery of Kikagaku Moyo, some in the slowcore indie of Galaxie 500 and others in the sparse psych folk of artists like Andy Shauf and The Radio Dept. 

Stephen Bailey's debut solo album Silo will be released on June 30th via Dusky Tracks. It will be pressed as a super limited run of translucent cassette tapes available for pre-order via bandcamp.