Vanity Is Forever is Crayon Fields front man Geoffrey O'Connor's first album under his own name, and his most ambitious, dynamic and sophisticated work yet. O'Connor's fractured romantic reflections and lustful tributes play out over vast synthscapes, colossal stadium drums and flanged orchestral sweeps, creating a world that is at once ethereal and strikingly vivid. Recently, O'Connor has mesmerized audiences with an extravagant live show of dueling synthesizers, lasers, light sculptures and hypnotic projections. His diverse solo output - under both his own name and previous solo moniker Sly Hats - has seen him handpicked to support a the likes of Fleet Foxes, Jens Lekman, School of Seven Bells, Andrew Bird and First Aid Kit.