The Faraway Places

California’s Faraway Locations began life like a Boston-based music group called Solar Sunday. Guitarist/vocalist Chris Colthart, keyboardist/vocalist Donna Coppola, and bassist Jeff Wright released a self-titled EP in 2001 on the homegrown imprint NOT FAR FROM, assisting it with times starting for Papas Fritas. Colthart and Coppola after that trapped with Papas Fritas, touring together as accompanying music artists. Next arrived a proceed to Los Angeles, as well as the molting procedure to be Faraway Locations. Furthermore to Colthart (performing as primary songwriter) and Coppola, the brand new device included a tempo portion of drummer Chris Phillips and bassist Scott Barber. Faraway Locations continued to use within the psych-pop underground ferreted out by Solar Sunday before finally obtaining official in Dec 2003 with Unfocus onto it (Eenie Meenie). It had been a giddy, quirky, and literate pop record comparable to the Elephant 6 collective, or simply Stereolab covering XTC. It constructed a polite small hype for the music group, and found Western distribution through Robin Guthrie’s Bella Union imprint.