Daiana Feuer on January 4th, 2016

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Kyle Fields is a tall, generally bearded California man who has made music as Little Wings since the 1990s, releasing albums on K Records, while also peppering his time as a bandmate to M. Ward, Devendra Banhart, Calvin Johnson and The Microphones here and there. His most recent album, “Explains,” was released by Woodsist in May, a fitting place for this thoughtful, kinda melancholy but tender folk music. Little Wings songs are dense with stories, weaving portraits of characters and moments that are sad, funny, and poetically rendered. Sometimes, it’s uncertain whether a line is meant to make you cry or chuckle, in part due to his stoic almost-rap delivery. But as we can see in the “Fat Chance” video, there’s a definitive goofy side to Fields. Directed by Patrick Brice—who directed/wrote films “The Overnight” and “Creep,” during “Fat Chance” we follow Fields around a house surrounded by trees, gesticulating as he punctuates his verbiage until, while changing a car tire, something snaps and he turns into a green monster, all because a glowing insect flew up his nose. Got to watch out for those barn flies.

||| Watch: “Fat Chance”