Youth Sport in Australia

Australian six-piece Fairchild are set to continue their string of 1980s musical praises with the release of trailblazing new single ‘Relevance’ – an intoxicating pastiche of new wave and dance rock bombast, masterfully captured and repolished to a 21st century sheen by producer/mixer Catherine Marks (Foals, The Killers, Wolf Alice). Interlacing austere guitar riffs with murky synths and an uncharacteristic tenor croon from singer Adam Lyons, ‘Relevance’ revs its engines and spins its wheels before leaving the listener in a haze of scorching rubber and desert dust. Adam Lyons states, “In the studio I remember thinking ‘how I sing on [Relevance] is much more important than the words coming out of my mouth.’ The instrumental had no discernible chord changes in the verses and I knew my vocal needed to act as a linchpin to hold the track together.