As is so often the case these days, the song popped into my head unbidden over the weekend. The backstory is that the indie album that it's from crossed my desk at Stereo Review with no advance warning, and it will surprise nobody to learn that the main reason I gave it a spin immediately was due to the Vox guitar posed so enticingly on the right hand side of the album cover.
As for Fire Town, they got signed soon after to Atlantic, who re-released the album; alas, it still refused to sell despite my raving about it in the pages of SR. Two of the band members, however, went on to form Garbage with Shirley Manson, and the rest, as they say, is history.
That said, the whole album is great; I think I have a complete download of it somewhere, so if the above piques your curiosity, gimme a holler and I'll send you a zip file.
5 comments:
Both “fab” AND ”gear”. (An extremely rare combination.).
Sounds like something the Floor Models would have produced. Did you ever cover it?
Jai Guru Dave
I very much wanted us to, but we never got around to it.
I like it! Never heard it before.
Captain Al
A tasty tune and I’m sure I have the LP I bought based on your review. Another fine jangle-pop band in the wake of R.E.M. was the Canadian group The Grapes of Wrath who did several eps and lps.
- Paul in DK
Don’t know those guys — I’ll check them out, thanks!
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