Fire Talk Records' 2018 Output.

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Fire Talk 2018

dry stick in a basket

written/performed by SSNACKSS
recorded/mixed by Aaron Schroeder @ Pierced Ears
mastered by Ed Brooks @ Resonant Mastering

Crud (demo)

Soft Spot (demo)

From Deeper's debut self titled album out May 25th on Fire Talk. 

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Bandcamp: https://deeperchi.bandcamp.com/album/deeper

The debut album from Chicago based Deeper. Origins of the project date back to 2014 where the band has made their mark locally supporting like minded acts Omni, Protomartyr, Chris Cohen & fellow Chicago powerhouses Whitney & Ne-Hi. Fresh off official after show appearances at Pitchfork & Lollapalooza the band is poised to jump out wide with this debut record. 9 tracks channel the anxiety and uneasiness of modern life in this pit of endless internet, chiming post punk rave ups with pointed "of the times" lyrics & gorgeous ambient interludes woven in.

Deeper

Deeper - Pink Showers

Lead single from Julian's new EP "Real Distance" out 6/15 on Fire Talk. 

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Julian was formed in the summer of 2015, in a hot and sweaty living room in Washington, DC. The brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Julia Leiby, Julian’s early songs had a minimal twee-pop feel reminiscent of Beat Happening. But as the band grew and evolved over the last few years, so did their sound. Currently joined by Cale Cuellar (Tall Friend) on drums and Eric Zidar (Tosser) on bass, Leiby’s songs have moved in a hazier, more atmospheric direction on Julian’s latest release, the Real Distance EP.

Recorded at Gravesend Recordings in Brooklyn, the five songs are brief—only one of them breaks the two-minute mark—and freckled with twinkling guitar lines that bring The Sundays to mind. A photographer by trade, Leiby’s ability to think visually heavily influences their music; the whole EP plays like a softly-lit dream. There’s a muted urgency in each track, as though Leiby is fit to burst with earnest romanticism. But there’s self-awareness, too. On “S,” the darkest and most driving song of the bunch, Leiby almost chants a mantra: “Don’t touch me, / I own this body. / Stay away, / I’m not your prey. / I’m stronger than you think.” And it’s in that space between light and darkness, softness and force, that Julian’s songs find their charm.

Real Distance

Julian - Low

A brand new single from Chicago's EARRING. "Flower Every" is a departure from the wavy muddy catharsis we experienced on the band's debut full length and sees them headed toward a more straight forward hook heavy approach. Jason Balla (Ne-Hi, Dehd) takes the vocal delivery into the light culminating in the band's most powerful work yet.

Earring - Flower Every

Second single from the debut Monteagle album - A new project from Nassau chief songwriter Justin Giles Wilcox.

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Midnight Noon_3

Monteagle - Master

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Monteagle is the solo moniker of Justin Giles Wilcox - best know as chief songwriter in Nassau and now defunct Tennessee band Moonlight Bride. The later of which had some early looks, collapsing just on the brink of break out success. Paste Magazine calling Wilcox’s delivery in a “Best of What’s Next” feature “tremulous, bare-souled vocals, which are as haunted and alluring as the caves that riddle the rocky hills of the band’s hometown.”  Monteagle, named for a mountain inside those hills marks a re-birth for the now well seasoned indie rock vet. Expanding on the more ethereal, dreamy inclinations of past work into something closer to the history of those hills. 

Midnight Noon is the project’s first full length album and embodies a collection of songs written about growing up in rural Tennessee, moving to New York City and looking back at the once discarded landscape with a deeper understanding and appreciation of rural America's hidden beauty. The album envelops a slow focus, working in honest observations and simple truths. It's an origin story sonically toying with Americana and Folk and placing it in a more urban, textural context. 

The aim here was to get back to Justin’s roots, to take all of those past experiences and channel them into something both nostalgic and modern. On the album’s title track Wilcox croons “I still can’t erase anything I’ve seen”, and that line speaks to the truths he’s getting at here. We all work hard to grow past our particular upbringing, but sometimes it’s worth reflecting to get at who we truly are in the modern American landscape and to better understand our place in the world. 

The album was written recorded and produced by Justin Giles Wilcox and members of the Monteagle live band in a old church in upstate New York, mixed in Justin’s home studio in Brooklyn and mastered by Doug Van Sloun (Bright Eyes, Songs: Ohia, M. Ward) in Omaha Nebraska. Midnight Noon will see release on November 30th 2018 on Fire Talk Records.

Monteagle - East LA

http://firetalkrecs.com/dehd

"Is a dream worth dying for if you're six feet under ground?". Dying For is a new track from Chicago mainstays Dehd. Emily Kempf (formerly Lala Lala) & Jason Balla (Ne-Hi, Earring) along with Eric McGrady on drums churn out the kind of raw emotion and astute observations only seasoned vets can articulate. It's a love song, it's a road song, it's full of heartbreak and heartache and that perpetual longing. "Aren't you tired now?"

Dehd - Dying For

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cremation lily x døves - understanding forever

Short-Chain:
Glen Biesiek
Laurence Diack
Catherine Ellis
Liam Pram

Recorded by Liam Pram, Tom Dennison & Joshua Lynn
Mixed and Mastered by Joshua Lynn

High Jump

I'm the golden one, special, the best
I'm weak, Impotent, nothing
I don't give a fuck eat the flesh off your bones