Through newfound love, Aotearoa romantic Reb Fountain reconsiders the world in a new light on “Nothing Like”.
The strings-led pop track is a love song that willingly looks within, from the visionary’s upcoming record How Love Bends. The album is slated for release on Friday, March 7th.
The new single was co-produced by bandmate Dave Khan and Simon Gooding in just one day. “I was in the depths of recording How Love Bends and in the heart of a new relationship,” Fountain reflects.
Through an “intensely productive creative time and an enriched personal life”, she felt “a profound shift in my lived experience”.
“I’m ready for a slow dance”, Fountain lulls in the ballad. To be so in love, she dreams of “cheating death” to safe-keep her romance forevermore.
Reb Fountain once again collaborates with her daughter—filmmaker Lola Fountain-Best—to create a music video. It uses four rolls of Super 8 film, where Fountain spends time with Dark the horse in “Nothing Like” exploring West Auckland’s Muriwai Beach.
“Our vision of the world is often a reflection of our shadows; hungry ghosts searching for our likeness, clouded by the umbra that binds us,” Reb said of the video.
She recalls, “As I walked with my dog up Maungarei in Tāmaki Makaurau, I felt, for a short time, that the fog was lifted and beneath was a hopefulness innate to our humanity that is often lost in the hunt for what feels lacking in our lives” she continued.
Gooding was staying with Fountain when she first showed him the voice memo for the song. “We played it through as a band first thing, edited and honed the arrangement and lyrics. Karin (Czanerk) created the bassline that underpins the instrumental, Earl (Robertson) composed the string line which Dave played, an
d with Dave and Simon at the helm, we wove a landscape for the song and finished ‘Nothing Like’ that day.”
Reb Fountain and her full band will go on a nationwide tour throughout April and May this year. Tickets are available here.
Reb Fountain’s “Nothing Like” is out now.
