In Plain Sight - CD

Neal Francis sophomore album In Plain Sight offers up a body of work both enchanting and painfully self-aware, recorded entirely on tape with his bandmates. Mixed by Grammy Award-winner Dave Fridmann (Spoon, Tame Impala, Flaming Lips), the album spotlights Franciss refined yet free-spirited performance on piano, an instrument he took up at the age of four. The album came to life over the course of a tumultuous year spent living in a possibly haunted church in Chicago. The result: a portrait of profound upheaval and weary resilience, presented in a kaleidoscopic sound thats endlessly absorbing. In Plain Sight ultimately reveals the possibility of redemption and transformation even as your world falls apart.

When I started the process of writing these songs, I was so emotionally out-of-sorts and really kind of hopeless that Id be able to come up with anything, says Francis. But then I sat down and started working, and embraced whatever inspiration came my way. Sometimes it felt like beating my head against a wall, but I tried to trust that it would lead somewhere. The whole thing was like a weird dreamthis very strange time of terrible, wonderful isolation.Tracklist:
Alameda Apartments
Problems
Can't Stop The Rain
D'Artagnan
Prometheus
Sentimental Garbage
Asleep
BNYLV
Say Your Prayers