Josephine Foster - 'I'm A Dreamer'

Taken from the Josephine Foster album 'I'm A Dreamer', released 2013 on CD and LP by Fire Records.


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Josephine Foster - 'I'm A Dreamer'

To celebrate International Record Store Day Danielson release "Wheel In The Key" - a cover of the classic Journey anthem

Danielson - Wheel In The Sky

'Last Word' is the new single to be taken from Hospitality's latest album 'Trouble' (out now on Fire Records/Europe + Merge/USA). The band will embark on their first ever tour in May, which includes a sold-out headline show at London's Sebright Arms as well as a slot Primavera Sound Festival. Full European tour dates below.
 
European Tour Dates:
09/05/14 : London Calling @ Paradiso – Amsterdam (NL)
10/05/14 : Vera – Groningen (NL)
11/05/14 : Die Pumpe – Kiel (D)
12/05/14 : Stengade – Copenhagen (DK)
14/05/14 : Debaser – Stockholm (S)
15/05/14 : Pustervik – Gothenburg (S)
16/05/14 : Pop Revo – Aarhus (DK)
17/05/14 : Kampnagel – Hamburg (D) (+ The Julie Ruin)
18/05/14 : Bi Nuu – Berlin (D) (+ The Julie Ruin)
19/05/14 : Hafen 2 – Offenbach (D)
20/05/14 : Les Nuits de Botanique – Brussels (B)
21/05/13 : Sticky Mikes Frog Bar – Brighton (UK)
22/05/14 : Brudenell Social Club – Leeds (UK)
23/05/14 : Broadcast – Glasgow (UK)
24/05/14 : Whelans – Dublin (EIR)
26/05/14 : Sebright Arms – London (UK)
27/05/14 : Peniche – Lille (F)
28/05/14 : Fleche d’or – Paris (F)
31/05/14 : Primavera sound – Barcelona (ES)
 
Hospitality return with the follow-up to their glowing 2012 debut with a darker, richer collection of eclectic avant pop in Trouble. Taking unexpected yet satisfying turns, the new album sees the band offer up a moodier palette, with more instances of space and silence, looser arrangements and more open production.
 
The album draws on the expansive sound of 70s progressive rock and the minimalist urgency of post punk, citing specifically King Crimson’s "In The Wake of Poseidon", Arthur Russell and Wire as influences.
 
"Sweet at the core but pleasantly dark around the edges." Uncut

"Like Sleater-Kinney reimagined for synth-pop teens." Mojo

"takes a different direction from what was heard on the debut, embracing dark, dour synths and vocalist Amber Papini's slightly growling lower register." Pitchfork

“Papini’s lyrics are witty, and if you let her songs—which range from toe-tapping power pop to amped-up folk—into your head, they’ll stay there.” —The New Yorker


Order here: http://www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=releasereleaseid=00000001051r.com/firerecordings




Hospitality - Last Words

Death And Vanilla - Arcana

Released on 180g 12" vinyl includes 7" for Record Store Day 2015

Mission of Burma - Academy Fight Song

The most famous track from the newly reissued early 90's indie classic 'Icky Mettle' by Archers Of Loaf. Fire is releasing a Deluxe Version including a whole bonus disc of extra material including b-sides from the 'Icky Mettle' era.

Archers Of Loaf - Web In Front

Whitney K - Something Strange

Mission Of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver

Newly reissued Neutral Milk Hotel's 1996 debut 'On Avery Island'.

Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex

Faten Kanaan - Afternoon

Lucky Break - Burning String

Haylie Davis - Golden Age

Marta Del Grandi - Antarctica

'Anklung Song' is taken from Orchestra Of Spheres new album 'Brothers And Sisters Of The Black Lagoon' out 13th May on Fire Records

Orchestra Of Spheres - Anklung Song

ESG
Reissue 'Keep On Moving'
Out August 25th 
Blue LP / Standard LP /CD

“If there's one tune which sums up ESG's enduring lust for life, it's the beautifully-judged Black Flag/early techno crossover of the closing 'Gimme A Blast'.” Ben Thompson, The Guardian 5/5
 
“This album's every percussive aspect has been honed to impart the maximum amount of pleasure.” The Observer
 
“Despite their influence on younger bands (you can hear LCD Soundsystem's knobbly grooves on ‘Insane’), ESG still sound like nothing else.” The Guardian
 
“An astonishingly primal album.” Uncut

It feels like someone left the light on in the studio and it all just ran itself, there had been a funky human input earlier in the day but, by a Darwinian machine-led kind of osmosis, the tracks recorded spent the wee small hours self-reducing and simplifying themselves. Marinated in music.
 
“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil,” said Truman Capote. ”Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” opined Leonardo da Vinci much earlier in proceedings. Yes, it’s the space around the object, what you leave out that makes what you leave in so important. ESG know this. Sure they can play the game but it’s the swagger of the groove and the minimal topping – like an anti-cup cake – that makes this unique New York sisterhood so appealing on ‘Keep On Moving’.
 
Sampled on TV ads, lauded by critics and swooned over on the dancefloor, ESG’s post-punk took out the grunge and polished the basics. Cut them open and “less is more” is written all the way through.
 
‘Keep On Moving’ was released just over ten years ago to much praise (Q said it was “even better” than 2002’s much loved ‘Step Off’). ESG had been sparring partners for PiL and early hip hop and four years after the ‘Off’, they were onto something new – rhythm as core, reflective storylines about relationship management, sensuality and insanity gather around the bass fix but they’re much blurrier than the incessant beats. Inadvertently they unmask techno and glitch and leave out any kind of superfluous fluff. It’s hard and temple throbbing. Turn it up. And keep moving.

ESG - Insane Tambourine Mix

Hater New EP ‘Red Blinders’
Out December 1st 
Pre-order link: https://haterfire.bandcamp.com/ 

“Their ability to effortlessly write songs that are devastating in their lyrical impact yet bewitching to hear is only rivaled by a few.” Revue

“Their unique take on rock music feels familiar and lived-in, taking bits from indie-pop, post-punk, and classic rock.” Stereogum

"Gorgeous, achingly bittersweet vocals, perpetually swaying between comforting and devastating.” Gorilla Vs Bear

You can imagine John Peel’s hurriedly inaccurate summation of a cold and unforgiving Swedish winter as he juxtaposes the big-jumper-like welcoming warmth of Hater. Their lush and tempered guitars are an almost Marr-approved Smiths-like foil for Caroline Landahl’s beautifully accented and accentuated vocal – it’s a heartwarming brew.

“We know little of their home town, Malmo,” Peel might have mused, caught up in Hater’s minor chord world weariness, “other than that Roy Hodgson had a particularly successful time there… probably long before this young four-piece were actually born.”

Indeed. Hater are new to the game. This year’s well-received debut album, ‘You Tried’ earned comparisons to Alvvays, The Pretenders and even Jefferson Airplane, eclectic for sure, but that’s just incidental.

Their new EP distinguishes their very own super polished and intricate guitar-led dreamy pop. Featuring their first single for Fire, the wonderfully forlorn and truly lovesick ‘Blushing’ (we’ve all been there) and ‘Rest’ with its haunting monosyllabic guitar break, a super-clean chiming motif that seems like a closing salvo before it regains momentum and brings proceedings to a suitable climax, welcoming back Landahl for one last chorus.

The echoey eeriness of ‘Red Blinders’ could have come right out of the bubble blowing indie pop hey days of the early ‘80s, while ‘Penthouse’ is a chunkier c86 groove with a wind blowing through its motorik rhythm.

Hater release their new EP ‘Red Blinders’ on December 1st on Fire Records.

Hater - Blushing

Jane Weaver releases new 7” ‘The Lightning Back’
Out 6th April 2018

“She’s by some distance the best songwriter of the latter-day psych revivalists” Guardian

“A supernova talent” KEXP

Following an incredible year, Jane Weaver returns with indie store exclusive 7” ‘The Lightning Back’ on April 6th 2018. 

Widely considered the standout protonic pop song from Jane Weaver's unanimously revered Modern Kosmology, The Lightning Back sees the meteoric collision of micro-chip modulations and homespun harmonies courtesy of a self-sufficient artist who has in recent years become regarded as one of the countries finest in the field.  

This 3.5 minute pocket-pop implosion fuses subtle patch-bay arpeggios evoking the stylings of Wendy Carlos and (previous collaborator) Suzanne Ciani providing a deftly constructed framework for Weavers songwriting talents. Celebrating the intimacy and inhibition-free methodology found in her solo-power approach, The Lightning Back hears Jane's yearning lyricism rise through unique agile melodics seldom found in synthesised pop music.

This limited vinyl single also comprises a B-side in the form of a remix from London based art-noise-jazz-rock supergruppen Sex Swing.
Jane Weaver will be heading out on the road with her band across Europe from February 16th opening for Belle and Sebastian on a select number of tour dates. In the UK, she’ll also be touring with Public Service Broadcasting throughout April along with festival appearances at Greenman, Camp Bestival, Focus Wales and Halfway (Poland).

Live Dates
16 Feb: Muffathalle, Munich, Germany*
17 Feb: Admiralspalast, Berlin, Germany*
18 Feb: Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany* 
19 Feb: Carre, Amsterdam, Netherlands* 
21 Feb: DK Studio 1, Copenhagen, Denmark* 
22 Feb: Munchen Brewery, Stockholm, Sweden* 
23 Feb: Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway* 
24 Feb: Studios, Gothenburg, Sweden*
05 Apr: New Theatre, Oxford, UK **
06 Apr: O2 Academy, Bournemouth, UK **
07 Apr: The Dome, Brighton, UK **
08 Apr: Margate Winter Gardens, Margate, UK **
10 Apr: Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK **
11 Apr: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, Wales **
12 Apr: Olympia, Liverpool, UK **
13 Apr: De Montfort Hall, Leicester, UK **
14 Apr: Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland **
16 Apr: The Empire, Middlesbrough, UK **
17 Apr: O2 Academy, Sheffield, UK **

10 May: Focus Wales Festival, St Giles Church, Wrexham, Wales  
29 Jun – 01 Jul: Halfway Festival, Białystok, Poland 
8 Jul:  TRNSMT Festival, Glasgow Green, Glasgow, Scotland
21 Jul: Deershed Festival, Baldersby Park, North Yorkshire, UK  
26-29 July: Camp Bestival, Dorset, UK  
16-19 Aug: Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, Wales 

w/ Belle & Sebastian *
w / Public Service Broadcasting **

Jane Weaver - The Lightning Back

Bark Psychosis’ second studio album
‘///Codename: Dustsucker’
Reissued on 25th May 2018
33 1/3 rpm double LP Gatefold / standard CD

Pre-order: https://barkpsychosis.bandcamp.com/

“Bark Psychosis deliver. And like Hex, Dustsucker sounds utterly unique”
Pitchfork

“The mark they left is indelible.”
Classic Rock

Following the reissue of ‘Hex’ in late 2017, Fire Records reissue Bark Psychosis’ second studio album ‘///Codename:Dustsucker’ (2004) “which finds the band in remarkable form” (Pitchfork). 

Arriving ten years after the band disbanded, the long-awaited and criminally overlooked follow up brings with it an evolution of their sound. Their experimentations are layered with blissed out electronics, shoegaze, post-rock and jazz are still at its fore as are Sutton’s crystalline vocals. Languid and brooding, the soundscapes are dark and sustained while their “trademark cocoon of limpid, rippling guitar figures and jazzy adornment is buffeted by sharp leftward turns” (Uncut).

Recorded in Graham Sutton’s East London DustSuckerSound studio between 1999 and 2004, it features contributions from Talk Talk sticksman Lee Harris and ‘found drumming’ from ex-band member Mark Simnett.

Bark Psychosis’ ‘///Codename: Dustsucker’ would go on to be their last studio album. The double LP gatefold is released on 25th May 2018.

Track list:
1.	From What Is Said To When It’s Read
2.	The Black Meat
3.	Miss Abuse
4.	400 Winters
5.	Dr. Innocuous/Ketamoid
6.	Burning The City
7.	INQB8TR
8.	Shapeshifting
9.	Rose

Bark Psychosis - From What Is Said To When It's Read

Fire Records are excited to announce the worldwide signing of hotly tipped New Zealand band Opossom. The brainchild of Kody Nielson, formerly of acclaimed "trouble gum art punks" The Mint Chicks , Opossom have produced the exceptional and captivating album 'Electric Hawaii', which is due for release in August.

The first single from the album will be "Blue Meanies", a synth-led, bass heavy psych odyssey with a surreal, semi-animated video shot amid beautiful woodland scenery, featuring fantastical creatures, adventurous hikers and golden Buddhas with laser beam eyes. The b-side features Kody's slow-fi, dub remix of the track.

WATCH THE VIDEO here: https://vimeo.com/43598373

Opossom - Blue Meanies

Death And Vanilla new album ‘Are You A Dreamer?’
out 10th May 2019

Pre-order https://fire-records.lnk.to/areyouadreamer

New album from the Malmo-based trio of Marleen Nilsson, Anders Hansson and Magners Bodin.
 
Following the critically-acclaimed ‘To Where The Wild Things Are’ from 2015 and their haunting collection of soundtracks in between.
 
“Swedish exponents of dreamily lovely psych and lush, late-60s-style baroque pop.” The Guardian
 
 “Lush and enveloping, reminiscent of Curt Boettcher and Margo Guryan.” The Wire
 
“Fantastically eerie.” Clash
 
Exposing the trio’s love of all things retro with a nod to everything from Fun Boy Three to Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Contonou, while still roaming somewhere between an ambient Eno and Cocteau Twins at a late-night soiree.
 
A unique, individual sound: Longer, more plush and pampered; more hypnotic and haunting, mixing mellotron and affected guitar with a refined rhythm.
 
Electronic melancholy at its most evocative, riddled with super-memorable motifs and melodies that nestle in reflective echo.

‘Are You A Dreamer?’ is released on deluxe limited edition pink transparent LP, crystal clear LP, CD and digitally on Fire Records.

Track list:
1.	A Flaw In The Iris 
2.	Let’s Never Leave Here
3.	Mercier
4.	Eye Bath
5.	The Hum
6.	Nothing Is Real
7.	Vespertine
8.	Wallpaper Pattern

Are You A Dreamer?

Death And Vanilla - A Flaw In The Iris

From the deluxe reissue album "The Boys", out now on Fire Records

The Boys - Sick On You

Jane Weaver reinvents pop music on new album ‘Flock’ set for release on 5th March 2021

Pre-order 'Flock' : https://fire-records.lnk.to/JWFlock

Beautifully packaged Rough Trade exclusive will be available on olive-green vinyl with a deluxe ‘tip-on’ sleeve and poster. Other variants include an indie store LP on cream vinyl, a standard light rose vinyl edition and CD. 

These are strange times. Everything is different. One thing we know, for sure, is that Jane Weaver continues to metamorphosise...

New album ‘Flock’ is the record that Jane always wanted to make, the most genuine version of Jane Weaver, complete with unpretentious Day-Glo pop sensibilities, wit, kindness, humour, glamour...

It features an untested new fusion of seemingly unrelated compounds fused into an eco-friendly hum; pop music for post-new-normal times. Created from elements that should never date, its pop music reinvented.

Still prevalent are the cosmic sounds but ‘Flock’ is a natural rebellion to the recent releases which sees her decidedly move away from conceptual roots in favour of writing pop music.

Produced on a complicated diet of bygone Lebanese torch songs, 1980's Russian Aerobics records and Australian Punk.

The first broadcast from this flickering set is the single ‘The Revolution Of Super Visions’, an untelevised Mothership connection, with Prince floating by as he plays scratchy guitar; it also features a funky whack-a-mole bass line and synth worms. It’s upbeat, a story, a revolution in the head…

“The revolution accidentally happens because so many people visualise the same ideals and something supernatural occurs. Everyone is exhausted with social media, inequality and the toxic masculinity of world leaders contributing to a dying planet.” Jane Weaver

2021 Tour Dates:
04 June: Whelans, Dublin, Ireland
05 June: Black Box, Belfast, Ireland
07 June: King Tuts, Glasgow, UK
08 June: The Cluny, Newcastle, UK
09 June: Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
10 June: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
12 June: Thekla, Bristol, UK
13 June: District, Liverpool, UK
15 June: Village Underground, London
16 June: Chalk, Brighton, UK
17 June: Gorilla, Manchester, UK
18 June: Hare and Hounds, Birmingham, UK
19 June: Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, UK
For more information: www.janeweavermusic.com

Jane Weaver - The Revolution Of Super Visions

"Daringly different and dazzlingly diverse" Rough Trade

TROPICAL FUCK STORM / DERADOORIAN / THE LEMONHEADS / EARTH / LUCKY BREAK / HAYLIE DAVIS / WHITNEY K / BLACK LIPS / MONDE UFO / PICTISH TRAIL / GRAHAM REYNOLDS / VANISHING TWIN / JANE WEAVER / DECISIVE PINK / MARINA ALLEN / RVG / BAS JAN / MARTA DEL GRANDI / ISLET / ELLA RAPHAEL / FATEN KANAAN / LUCY GOOCH / HATER / RATS ON RAFTS / JOSEPHINE FOSTER / DEATH AND VANILLA / ROYAL TRUX / KRISTIN HERSH / THROWING MUSES / THE CHILLS / HALF JAPANESE / SEBADOH / THE DREAM SYNDICATE / AMBER ARCADES

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