# FENCES Teams With BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY On New 2-Track Single “Niagara”

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- Published: 2022-04-01T15:30:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

**Fences Teams with Bonnie “Prince” Billy on New 2-Track Single “Niagara”**

**Release features an original and a cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For 
The Devil”**

[**Stream “Niagara” on DSPs**](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=5067603.13353.1.e124d262acbd78d16e8ebed168899ed8)

[**Stream The “Niagara” Video Here**](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=5067603.13354.1.ade6b4c6fdc8b12f128d777e7630e3e7)

**Fences**, the alias of singer-songwriter Christopher Mansfield, has teamed up 
with acclaimed musician **Bonnie “Prince” Billy** (Will Oldham) on a new 2-song 
release titled ‘Niagara,’ out April 1st on Enci Records.

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The title track (track 1) is an original, while track 2 is a cover of The Rolling
Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil.”

Of the collaboration, Mansfield says, _“Working with someone who unknowingly informed
you on the process of what it is you do can be jarring. Self-doubt inflates, ego
inflates. Whatever is possible to feel will be felt. Two entirely different humans
in their own personal timelines trying to essentially find the same song. One is
further along the track, yet the track is a circle and two people eventually meet.
Consider it not being “lapped” but rather evidence of how a circle works. They will
pass and you will pass and then someone else will circle back to you, forever. To
quote Ram Dass “You feel in the moment how it is all related to each other and it
keeps blowing your mind”. I feel entirely grateful to have worked with Bonnie Prince
Billy and if I may be child-like for a moment, it blew my damn mind.”_

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Oldham adds, _“Most people take for granted that music is inherently about connection
and communication. Music is so good and so available that most folks think it just
IS. I live for the connection, for the idea that making music will bring me to the
table with the likes of Christopher (Fences): someone new to me who is a living,
breathing, fluent, damaged, energized, and inspiring worker-in-song, finding it 
in himself to not only give me the time of day, but to actually invite me to sit
and work with him.”_

In the past Fences has collaborated on music with the likes of Billy Strings, Tegan&
Sara, Macklemore, Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla, Jacquire King (Of Monsters 
and Men), Nile Marr (son of Johnny Marr), Cedric Bixler-Zavala (The Mars Volta, 
At The Drive-In) and Ryan Lewis, while having toured with Against Me! And others.

Released in late-April 2021 via Enci Records, Fences’ most recent LP ‘Wide Eyed 
Elk Ensemble’ builds on the sounds of his previous effort, the critically acclaimed
LP ‘Failure Sculptures,’ which was also released as an expanded deluxe edition in
2021.

FENCES - Niagara ft Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Official Music Video)

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With unanimous praise from outlets like _Paste Magazine, Clash, Spin, American Songwriter_
and others, Fences hopes to be back out on the road soon.

**What others have said about Fences:**
_“Breezy, rustic, big-hearted indie folk
songs that should appeal to fans of Lord Huron, Manchester Orchestra, and other 
stuff of that ilk.” – _**_Brooklynvegan_**

_“a vivid, poetic encounter with a talent operating on his own terms” _– **_Clash_**

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_Fences_

_“Fences, the nom de guerre of the tattooed singer-guitarist Christopher Mansfield,
teams up with Billy Strings on the bluegrass performer’s new collaboration “Globe.”
It’s a beautiful love ballad about our minute place in the grand scheme of the universe.”-_**
_Rolling Stone_**

_“Together with Fences, Strings plunges into the depths of indie alternative folk,
adding some rustic color to the slow-moving single.”- _**_Live For Live Music_**

_“…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_**

_“…further testament to Christopher Mansfield’s deeply emotional and expressive 
song-writing. 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_**

_“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_**

_“As an artist, Mansfield is comfortable in many lanes. He can croon with an acoustic
or glide on a house beat or singe on a hip-hop track hook. His talent is malleable…”-_**
_American Songwriter_**

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