Think Laurie Anderson playing chess with Bjork, while a soulful Lorraine Ellison aches and alien messages flutter through an old cathode tube. Think Prince arm-wrestling with Arthur Russell overlapped with the hum of Blue Velvet, its ambience and jarring sound effects splintered like Aphex Twin
Jane Weaver's experimental ensemble in collaboration with Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah, Fenella returns with a hallucinogenic excursion into ambient textures and hypnagogic drones on new album ‘The Metallic Index’. Taking further steps into their combined compositional universe with this follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed Fehérlófia album
Modern Studies removed to a byre in deepest Perthshire to create their latest EP, Cassandra, out 29th November on Fire Records. While still recognisable as part of the Modern Studies canon, the new EP is part live recording, part improvised, part chance, and part instrumental dreamscape, eight conjoined tracks which rise and fall in two movements.
This December Fire Records takes over our neighbouring 100 year old cinema, Dalston Rio as part of our end of year annual label showcase. Bringing you an esoteric extravaganza with performances from Vanishing Twin, Jane Weaver's Fenella, Yosa Peit and a special experimental set from Modern Studies
Faten Kanaan announces her fifth LP 'Afterpoem' - a mysterious, smudgy, bittersweet, and uniquely playful album. Deeply melodic, it continues her poignant exploration of counterpoint as a narrative tool
Bending scuzzy boundaries, 'Good Bad Not Evil' is a coming-of-age garage rock classic record. Full of hedonistic delinquent anthems, the album from Atlanta punks Black Lips reaches it’s 15 year anniversary. This deluxe edition includes unearthed photos and new liner notes from Jared Swilley and King Khan
Dutch singer/songwriter Amber Arcades. third album is a record of engaging maturity, filled with slow motion builds and epic lifts that elevate it to dizzying heights. Listen to first single 'Just Like Me'
'Apocalypse Love' is an album that emanates from a dive bar jukebox in the back of your mind; with a playlist that bends between tub thumping doom-glam, Plastic Ono singalongs, cocktail-shaken space age pop, Morricone reverberations and lo-fi outsider acoustic-punk, with mariachi horns, theremins, drum machines and harmonies filtering through the infectious melodies
Nightshift is the latest addition to our Fire Songs publishing roster. The ensemble from Glasgow, formed in 2019, continue the city’s rich history of blurring the lines between DIY, Post-Punk and Experimental Pop and features artist Eothen Stearn, Chris White, Andrew Doig aka Robert Sotelo and Georgia Harris