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
Following Bas Jan's sensational art-rock opus ‘Baby U Know’ released earlier this year, the unpredictable off-kilter four-piece are the latest act to join the ever-expanding Fire roster and will be touring with Pictish Trail later this year
Recorded at a number of studios across L.A between 2021 and 2022, Centrifics was produced, engineered and mixed by Chris Cohen and co-engineered by Jonny Kosmo. It features performances from Chris Cohen, Logan Hone, Jonny Kosmo, Emily Elhaj, Jasper McMahon, Ben Varian and Joachim Polack
Fire artists will have a busy summer/fall touring schedule with big tours for Black Lips, Kristin Hersh, The Dream Syndicate, Pictish Trail and freshly announced North America shows for Vanishing Twin, Jane Weaver, The Chills and Come (supporting Kurt Vile)
She'll be supporting The Chills in a select run of dates and headlining a show at New York's Knitting Factory
Recorded at Figure 8 studios in Brooklyn, NY, 'The Dance' features Skyler Skjelset (Fleet Foxes, Beach House), Luke Temple (backing vox, additional arrangements), Brian Betancourt (Hospitality, Sam Evian), Cass McCombs (backing vox on 'Alien'), Rina Mushonga (backing vox), Frankie Cosmos (backing vox), Lispector (backing vox), David Christian (drums), Ethan Sass (guitar, synth), and Ben Florencio (drums)
The brand-new album from The Dream Syndicate blends vintage Krautrock, Eno-like ambience, Neu-inspired rhythmic groove and a Californian sun baked sheen into their classic psychedelic, melodic, hue
Co-written by Emil Nikolasien, the new track has "a sense of arrogance and fragility in the lyrics which Jason had the good sense to fully obliterate with a tsunami of fuzz guitar" says Steve Wynn.
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