“Don’t let the fact that he looks like an extra from Sons Of Anarchy fool you because Chris Mansfield is a pretty sensitive dude. He doesn’t follow anyone on Twitter, so he’s infinitely more productive and prolific than you are. Sorry.” - Noisey

“…alongside down-and-out saints with vigour like Townes Van Zandt, Elliott Smith and The Cure, Mansfield sears vivid scenes rooted in hardship, drinking, despair and fear of losing love into the psyche…yet at all times he does so with a hand on his pop pistol, ready to blast completely into smithereens what, on paper, would look like just another hushed singer-songwriter on a downer.” Drowned in Sound

Seattle native FENCES, the alter-ego of musician/songwriter Christopher Mansfield will be releasing the Deluxe version of his 3rd album 'Failure Sculptures' on March 5th 2021 via ENCI. Pre-order is available now https://orcd.co/failuresculpturesdeluxe. Perhaps most well-known for his collaborations with Tegan and Sara (who produced his 2010 self-titled debut album) and Macklemore (who he's teamed up with on various tracks), ‘Failure Sculptures’ will be his first new LP since 2015's 'Lesser Oceans'

First single ‘A Mission’ takes a deep dive into the depths of a drinker and the path that he walks.
Mansfield says, " In 1959 Jack Kerouac appeared on The Steve Allen Show. In the interview, he said it took him 3 weeks to write “On The Road” but was on the road for 7 years. Nearly 60 years later this hit me. Life is long and art is short. It gave me a sense of relief in the fact it takes me some time to release new music. I can’t write what I haven’t seen with my own eyes. Most days I would trade this obsession with normalcy and happiness but paint can be toxic and paintings so beautiful. I headed up to Portland to meet Cheyenne, an artist and a large part of this story. We had a bond in our dreams and even nightmares. Hawk filming, slow-motion sage smoke and found footage. He the director and me an admirer. “A Mission” is the opening track of Failure Sculptures and the first video that was made. Our minds brothers, and our eyes projectors”

“The artistic alter ego for Seattle musician and songwriter Christopher Mansfield, FENCES’ folk music is heartrending and raw” Atwood magazine

"...further testament to Christopher Mansfield's deeply emotional and expressive songwriting. Writers such as Mansfield remind us that pop can still be spiritual, sublime, its expressive qualities capable of elevating the spirits and challenging our preconceptions about art of any kind."- PopMatters

“We were friends before we made any music together,” we have a lot of things in common – our vices and our demons and our art, the things that we’re good at and our shortcomings.” - Macklemore