{"id":974356,"date":"2020-01-10T08:27:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=933671"},"modified":"2020-01-10T08:27:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T15:27:31","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-frances-quinlan-your-reply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-frances-quinlan-your-reply\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Frances Quinlan, \u2018Your Reply\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frances Quinlan<\/a>\u2019s strength as a songwriter \u2014 both with her band, Hop Along,<\/a> and on her upcoming solo LP Likewise<\/i> \u2014 is in sharp fragments of scene and dialogue. Take her new song, \u201cYour Reply,\u201d which feels like a lightning-quick dip into someone else\u2019s mind. \u201cSomebody wrote \u2018tender\u2019 in the novel\u2019s margins,\u201d she sings in the first line, puzzling out another reader\u2019s relationship to the text in which she\u2019s immersed. In the next verse, she\u2019s googling the book\u2019s author to find out how their life ended. She knows it\u2019s not that easy to solve some riddles, though. \u201cWhether or not I have, or was given, a little more time\/There just doesn\u2019t seem to be much room for a reply,\u201d she sings in the chorus, making that word-string sound much catchier than it reads. Two lines later: \u201cTo what do I cling and think is mine?\/No reply.\u201d<\/p>\n

Where John Lennon found bitter resentment in those words<\/a>, Quinlan sounds almost freed by them, the song\u2019s acoustic strum giving way to a sunny piano break. \u201cI think of this song as celebratory,\u201d she explained in a statement released with the single. \u201cIf anything, the speaker is frustrated at coming so close to understanding another person completely, but perhaps only just missing the mark. But still, what a gift that is, to come close.\u201d Whether it\u2019s a song about a halting conversation between two people or a philosophical question for the mute heavens is almost beside the point. She gives you some of the story, and the margins are yours to scribble in.<\/p>\n

Likewise<\/i> is out January 31st on Saddle Creek.<\/p>\n

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Frances Quinlan Tour Dates<\/b>
January 13th: London, Rough Trade East In-Store
January 15th: London, Five Day Forecast Festival
January 19th: Chicago, Tomorrow Never Knows Festival at Sleeping Village
January 23rd: Milwaukee, Pabst Theater (supporting Ben Gibbard)
January 30th: Brooklyn, Sultan Room
March 1st: San Francisco, Noise Pop at Swedish American Music Hall
March 3rd: Portland, Oregon, Doug Fir
March 5th: Seattle, Columbiity Theater
March 6th: Vancouver, The Rubber Boot Club
March 7th: Victoria, BC, TBA
March 11th: Big Sur, CA, Henry Miller Memorial Library
March 12th: Los Angeles, Pico Union Project
March 14th: San Diego, Casbah
March 16th-21st: Austin, SXSW<\/p>\n

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Frances Quinlan\u2019s strength as a songwriter \u2014 both with her band, Hop Along, and on her upcoming solo LP Likewise \u2014 is in sharp fragments of scene and dialogue. Take her new song, \u201cYour Reply,\u201d which feels like a lightning-quick dip into someone else\u2019s mind. \u201cSomebody wrote \u2018tender\u2019 in the novel\u2019s margins,\u201d she sings in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 17:05:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}