The 10-track LP arrives three years after Glass Eights, Roberts's remarkably assured debut that landed at number five in RA's top albums list for 2010. In the time since that release, the American has busied himself with work as co-editor of The Travel Almanac, a magazine that looks at travel through the eyes of artists and has featured interviews with the likes of Will Oldham, James Murphy and David Lynch.
Although Fences was mixed in New York, the sounds that make up the album have been drawn from across the globe, with Roberts taking a tape recorder on the road to document his experiences as a writer for the Almanac. "With this album I really wanted to consciously attempt to channel the feeling of certain experiences from recently visited places that stuck with me for one reason or another," he explains. As with Glass Eights, Fences will come out through Hamburg label Dial.