Rumor has it when hairy hard-dancers Pop Will Eat Itself declared This Is the Day…This Is the Hour…This Is This! back in 1989, they were actually speaking of a future date. Today, actually. (Well, they sure as hell weren’t talking about the day “Seinfeld” premiered, were they?) Accordingly, it makes perfect sense to take a moment, open your windows, and shout PWEI’s declaration of enthusiasm, because today is indeed the day when Young God Records finally releases the debut album by TMT’s favourite bluegrass mowin’ stars, Fire On Fire.
Drum machines, ripped-off riffs, and blatant sloganeering will not play any part in the Fire on Fire revolution; the band takes a much more relaxed stance in their music: making old-time, backporch pickin’ and grinnin’ folk fashionable again hasn’t any need for technology or tricks. After the five-song tease of their autonomous EP, Fire On Fire’s first full-length, The Orchard, is available today exclusively through the YGR website. The first CD edition of The Orchard is limited and numbered to 1000, with cover art by chief firestarter Colleen Kinsella.
Acoustic riffs... yeah! Can you dig it?
The Orchard tracklisting:
1. Sirocco
2. Heavy D
3. Assanine Race
4. The Orchard
5. Flordinese
6. Hartford Blues
7. Toknight
8. Squeeze Box
9. Flight Song
10. Grin
11. Tsunami
12. Haystack
