Area: Fragments of the Morning (CD)

Product Description

Genres: Indie Rock, Alternative, Dream Pop
RIYL: Mazzy Star, Lone Justice, 10,000 Maniacs

“Express” appears in S1 E6 of Ryan Murphy’s LOVE STORY, the new FX/Hulu hit series about John F. Kennedy, Jr. & Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s romance. Scene: Carolyn and her sister get ready for her wedding day. “Express,” from AREA’s 1990 FRAGMENTS OF THE MORNING, blends Lynn Canfield’s melodic female vocal layers with keyboard driven rhythms and powerful guitar hooks to create blissful pop textures.

On their 4th (and final) album, Area was Lynn Canfield voice and Steve Jones instruments & incidentals


Between 1985 and 1990, Champaign-Urbana, Ill-based Area created simple, blissful pop with a distinctly Midwestern feel — soft, ethereal female vocals laid on subtle electronics and guitars.


SOUNDS U.K. wrote: “Poised and graceful, [vocalist Lynn Canfield] floats on silver wings over a candid dreamscape of music, aching for perfect love. . . . eerily compelling, a dark netherworld of exploration which unfolds with mystery and complexity.”


Amazon review by D.C. Harold: “Spellbindingly evocative. Where many songs about love generalize to the point of bland universality, Area’s songs are as intimate and specific as a page from someone else’s diary. Essential for anyone really interested in the secret workings of the heart.”


Originally released in 1990 on C’est La Mort Records. Reissued in 2000 on Projekt: Archive.