BIO

Wallace Field is a dream-weaver. Nowhere is it more apparent than on the Northampton-based singer-songwriter’s newest release, Fantasy, out September 22, 2026.

 

Written between 2021 and 2024, the five tracks that comprise Fantasy carry the Wallace Field signature: earnest storytelling, haunting, powerful vocals, and arrangements that deepen each song’s meaning. The project is her third release, following her debut studio album All Costs (2023). Fantasy weaves five stories – both autobiographical and character-driven – into a tender portrait of an imagined world in which everyone is self-sufficient, secure, and free to express themselves.

 

“It’s a celebration of simple pleasures and miracles,” Field says. It’s also an antidote to the AI moment. With vocals and guitar recorded live over three sessions and organic, roomy-sounding production by Michael Lesko, the record captures Wallace Field at her most confident and aspirational. The soft distortion and hiss of tape adds a warmth and immediacy deeply rooted in the real world, in defiance of lab-grown perfectionism.

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“Our day-to-day lives are not in high definition,” she says. “That’s not how our memory works, and that’s not how nostalgia works.”

 

Fantasy delivers a unique approach to nostalgia: “The Commons” harkens back to the days of feudalism, when peasants were able to provide for their basic needs by sharing common land before it was privatized. The realization that even peasants had more self-sufficiency through labor than modern-day members of the working class became the central fantasy of the EP.

 

The rest of the tracks explore a wide range of daydreams and what-ifs – what if we all felt welcome and secure at home? asks “July,” which features the sound of Field’s childhood local freight train as it passes through town, captured by Field herself. The title track indulges in the delight of an imagined love, while “This Time Around” provides a recursive meditation on a breakup. “The Wedding Gown,” inspired by Wallace Field’s love of thrift shopping for the white gowns that have become her signature stagewear, contrasts alternate timelines with one another: what If I never chose love? What if I did?  

 

When asked about the EP’s title, Field refers back to the project’s cover image: Wallace Field in her signature white gown and red hairbow, depicted from the back while standing on the trunk of a fallen tree. “This person doesn’t exist,” she says. “It’s myself as a character – we’re all some kind of fantasy to somebody.” Around her is a golden winter landscape on the brink of spring. It’s a landscape in transition, laden with possibility, on the brink of exploding with green.

 

“What is gritty and imperfect is real,” Field says. The grit and heart is its own kind of perfection, the perfection that the moment requires in response to the impossible demands of neverending consumption and the endless scroll. We should be so lucky to share the Fantasy with Wallace Field.

 

Learn more: wallacefieldmusic.com. Bio written by Kimaya Diggs.