Michael Gira, the man who brought us Calla and Devendra Banhart and Akron Family (and yes, the guy from Swans), is all hyped up about another band, an acoustic outfit called Fire On Fire. Three of the people in Fire on Fire used to be in Cerberus Shoal and another one of them is Micah Blue Smalldone, folk-picker extraordinaire. They're from Maine and if this MP3 is any indication, they are fr...
It seems like about six months since I’ve had a new review run, but here’s the first one for 2008. It’s the five-song EP from Fire on Fire, available only online and for only $7 from Young God Records, a label run by Michael Gira (ex-of Swans and currently of Angels of Light). Here’s a bit of the review:Fire on Fire's first recording, a self-titled EP, is a tantalizing glimpse of the new
Fire On Fire have just signed to Michael Gira's Young God Records. Their first release for the label is an old-timey country affair - a five song EP. Gira thinks they sound like "a backwoods, fierce, psychedelic Mamas And The Papas or a crazed and joyously vengeful gospel string band."The cover of "Fire On Fire."Here's the opening track, which I like a lot.
It seems like about six months since I’ve had a new review run, but here’s the first one for 2008. It’s the five-song EP from Fire on Fire, available only online and for only $7 from Young God Records, a label run by Michael Gira (ex-of Swans and currently of Angels of Light). Here’s a bit of the review:Fire on Fire's first recording, a self-titled EP, is a tantalizing glimpse of the new
Michael Gira, the man who brought us Calla and Devendra Banhart and Akron Family (and yes, the guy from Swans), is all hyped up about another band, an acoustic outfit called Fire On Fire. Three of the people in Fire on Fire used to be in Cerberus Shoal and another one of them is Micah Blue Smalldone, folk-picker extraordinaire. They're from Maine and if this MP3 is any indication, they are fr...
Back home after a short trip, here's the folky selection we promised but couldn't deliver on Friday. New stuff from Akron/Family's Set 'em Wild, Set 'em Free, Boduf Songs new EP on Under the Spire, Fire on Fire's The Orchard (Young God) and DM Stith introduced to us by Simone of Discoballbreaker. Kind of a male Joanna Newsom.