Portland’s chief exponents of literary rock, Richmond Fontaine have announced the release of Lost in the Trees, their new single and first from the upcoming album The High Country. The single will be released through Trash Aesthetics/Decor Records on August 29th.

Richmond Fontaine will be touring acoustically this summer and have shows at the Port Eliot and Truck festivals amongst others lined up; they also have a special single launch planned for July at The Prince Charles Cinema in London. Entitled An Evening of Film and Music curated by Richmond Fontaine, the band will premiere the Lost in the Trees video and play an acoustic set, Willy Vlautin will then introduce the perfect cinematic counterpart to the band’s latest work: David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.

Both Lost In The Trees and B-side The Eagles Lodge are fragments from the gothic love story between a mechanic and an auto parts store counter girl, whose secret love inspires an effort to escape the darkness of the world that surrounds them — drugs, violence, madness, loneliness, and desperation set against a backdrop of endless logging roads and the remains of a forest brutalized by logging. In this story of light vs. dark, Vlautin has woven a tale where screw-ups and freaks terrorize the lives of innocents.

You can listen to Lost in Trees here:

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