El grupo neoyorquino Forest Fire ha publicado recientemente su esperado segundo trabajo "Staring At The X", a través del sello discográfico FatCat Records . Tras su aclamado álbum de debut, "Survival", considerado por parte de la crítica como uno de los mejores discos del año 2009, vuelven a la carga con este nuevo disco que a buen seguro no defraudará a sus seguidores. Facebook Twitter MySpace mp3: Forest Fire-Future Shadows
Waking up to intimate, bizarrely under-attended sessions from Nika Roza Danilova and Shara Worden betters most mornings, beneath grotty canvas in a field or otherwise and the pair are evidently more awake than most, chirpy and chirruping their separate ways through respectively spine-chilling and heartwarming slots. From the most proficient to the most poignant, it's then onto the wayward quirk of Lafayette, Louisiana's Givers . Any peculiarity seems carefully constructed as drum kits are butchered and reconfigured in inverted formations, a dreamcatcher is caught on the neck of Tiffany Lamson's ukulele, and flute solos intervene momentarily. Like Dirty Projectors [...]
The Blogophilia series is backlogged for the first time in awhile! Hopefully, we can catch up here in a few weeks. This is the first new Blogophilia in over a month, featuring promotional mp3s from early July through mid-August that were hosted on The Dadada and other blogs. As always, this is a gapless mix. Blogophilia 31 Songs from Blogs early July – mid-August 2011 Download all files in one zip Tracklist (Gapless Mix) (#-Artist-Song Title) [...]
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Oyé oyé populations venues de Lyon et d'ailleurs! L'heure des amateurs de musiques alternatives est enfin venue. Rares étaient pour l'instant les structures offrant l'opportunité de découvrir des concerts de qualité à un prix abordable. Même si le Sonic et le Grrrnd Zero (qui menace d'ailleurs de fermer boutique) gèrent plutôt bien l'affaire, on ne peut décemment pas dire non quand il s'agit d'avoir accès à plus de concerts sur la région lyonnaise. C'est dans une brèche sensiblement différente que Perspectives Irrationnelles a décidé de s'engouffrer. Ils ont ainsi choisi [...]
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New York's Forest Fire are to embark on a European tour this month, which will include a couple of UK dates. We are giving away a pair of tickets to one of these dates at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen on December 5th, where it'll be the first chance to see them post the release of their second album Staring At The X , out on FatCat Records who they signed to in the summer. All you, dear reader, have to do is to answer this pretty simple question. [...]
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"The News" is found on Forest Fire's new album Staring At the X . http://www.facebook.com/pages/ Forest-Fire/121908997824950
When Winter hits elsewhere, Fall hits Los Angeles. Little changes, but we occasionally don infrequently worn coats, and complain frequently about the 30° difference in temperature. We fear that it will stay this way, seemingly forgetting that we will likely return to shorts for at least one weekend before Christmas. We yearn for 2 weeks ago with more energy than we dedicate to thinking about 2 weeks from now. Put the future behind us and the past ahead. Stand for nothing, live for me. [ cover image from "Examinations In Vinyl" by Carabaas [...]
Download : Caveman - "Thankful" New York's Caveman start of this weeks mix with "Thankful" an ideal mix of Brooklyn texture and that chilled out vibe all of us are looking for as the year wears down towards its close. These guys remind me of what Bishop Allen (one of my all-time favorites) could potentially [...]
Forest Fire Forest Fire has release a Sophia Peer-directed video for "The News" from the band's recently released album, Staring At The X . Peer has directed videos for Yeasayer, Woods and Delicate Steve, among others. Music Video For Forest Fire - The News from sophia peer on Vimeo . The band will be on tour in Europe through the end of 2011 and will return to the states for a 2012 tour. Tracklisting 1. Born [...]
Americana is a style of music which is not without its difficulties. Even its definition is troublesome: given its basis in a loose grouping of American roots musics, it could be argued that Americana is less a coherent concept than it is a convenient label for a radio format. If like Mat Gibson you enter into all this from a British rather than American perspective, things can be more complicated still. On the basis of his new mini-album Forest Fire , it would seem that Gibson has wisely avoided confronting these [...]
meine zuneigung zu forest fire habe ich nie verborgen (klick , klick , klick ). "survival", der erstling der brooklyner band um sänger und songschreiber mark tresher, war ein raues und ungebundenes vieh, das man allzugern von der leine ließ. mit dem zweiten werk, "staring at the x", es erschien am 18. oktober als fatcat debut, ist es also ein besonderes ding. von "cosmic american" ist die rede, von entwicklung und all den dingen, die im zusammenhang mit einem debutnachfolger stehen, der sich inspiriert und offen für neues zeigt. bevor wir uns in [...]
Staring at the X is a statement album, but you might not recognize it as such until about halfway in. Forest Fire were being a perfectly capable, occasionally decadent "weird folk band" (their words, not mine) back on 2009's Survival – but this is a lurching, scorched, somewhat alienating nine-song suite, with a final third that comes together like a linked, cinematic ascendance. Despite its lean build, it does not aim to be breezy; it aims to be digested, to be mulled over, to be paid attention to. Regardless [...]
Staring At The X is the second album from Forest Fire , and the follow up to the excellent Survival . The initial set up and feel of this album is similar to the debut, although I would assume by osmosis that various influences have crept into the mix before this was completed as the jagged fuzzed guitar lines and drones are more prominent that the first outing (and just as left field with their placement) as well as the introduction of more synth based keyboard lines. The band has always been a sonic [...]
US outfit Forest Fire will release new single 'Future Shadows' on December 12th. Songwriter/vocalist Mark Thresher explains "This record is our attempt to be more of an ambitious songwriter/rock band, rather than a weird folk band." Meanwhile the band kick off their UK tour on 28th November in Liverpool. Check the new single out for yourselves and see below for further tour dates: 28/11/11: The Shipping Forecast - Liverpool 29/11/11: Chameleon Arts Cafe - Nottingham 30/11/11: Cockpit – Leeds 02/12/11: Cluny [...]
Neil Young comparisons flow thick and fast in the press surrounding Mat Gibson , which is a little unfair. Comparing the London-based, Canadian-born songwriter to one of the most highly regarded and recklessly diverse recording artists of the last half century certainly puts him under a lot of pressure to perform, especially when Gibson actually sounds very little like Young, in any of his incarnations. With Jonah , lifted from Gibson's latest mini-album Forest Fire , we're instead treated to the kind of reverberant vocal phrasings more characteristic of the likes [...]
It seemed safe to believe from 2009's Survival that Forest Fire would make a name for themselves as next in a line of successful folksy indie outfits, all elbows, cross-stitch and slide guitar, that would alternately jangle and coo their way into our hearts. Staring at the X turns its back on this winning trajectory, however, instead offering a more disjunctive and yet labored album that attempts to expand upon this formula but in the end fails to play to their strengths. Steeped in noisy effects and intentional lo-fi, the album nonetheless feels [...]
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These are my 100 favourite songs of 2011: songs I love more than plums & peaches & lesser harvests of almonds. I follow just one arbitrary rule: that no artist may be listed twice. I made similar lists in 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 and 2010 . The best way to browse this list is to click the little arrow beside each song and then to listen as you read. The things you like [...]
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