Following the release of critically acclaimed new album ‘The Weight Of The Sun’ back in the Spring, Modern Studies used the time they’d have usually spent touring to create new EP 'Life Flows In Endless Song'.
It's been another amazing year of music at Fire Records. From new signings like Black Lips, Islet, RVG, Brigid Mae Power and Faten Kanaan, to familiar faces like Modern Studies, Josephine Foster and Pictish Trail - 2020 didn't stop Fire from celebrating the maverick artistry of our roster. Revisit some of the highlights below...
Fire Records’ new compilation ‘Baptism Of Fire’ takes you on a trip through the label’s acclaimed 2020 releases and into early 2021.
This exquisite remix is beautifully ethereal re-imagining of lead single from this year’s Welsh Music Prize shortlisted and highly praised Islet album, ‘Eyelet’.
2020 modern classics by Islet, Brigid Mae Power & Modern Studies are now being repressed on limited colour vinyl.
Brooklyn-based composer Faten Kanaan returns with new album 'A Mythology of Circles', inspired by cinematic forms and mythological story structures: from sweeping landscapes and quiet romances, to patterned tensions and dream sequences; Faten brings an earthy, visceral touch to electronic music.
New album ‘private LIFE’ draws on the synth-pop of the last album whilst being another audacious statement on contemporary pop.
For the last Record Store Day of 2020 we have The Lemonheads' Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition of 'Lovey', Jon Brion's soundtrack for Charlie Kaufman's 'Synecdoche New York' starring late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bardo Pond's space rock masterpiece 'On The Ellipse' and The Bevis Frond's 'Valedictory Songs' and 'What Did For The Dinosaurs', reissued for the first time since their original releases.
‘Flock’ is the record that Jane Weaver always wanted to make, the most genuine version of herself, complete with unpretentious Day-Glo pop sensibilities, wit, kindness, humour and glamour.