sentient meat
What a box set. Both these albums are exceptional, although my slight preference is for The Fire Show. The LP with the live tracks shines a new light on the creativity and technical prowess of this band. So many incredible tracks spread over this set that it's near impossible to pick a favourite, but the one that keeps repeating in my head is Conception Blues. Other contenders are The Antipathetic, Explosion: Cerebellum, and Magellan Was A Felon. Just pick this up, you won't be disappointed.
Favorite track: Conception Blues.
Holy fucking shit. The box set is amazing! The live tracks are whooping my ass in the best way possible. Thank you boys again for putting this together!!!
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Twenty years after the band's dissolution The Fire Show is finally available on vinyl. This 3-LP set collects the band's two proper albums: their 2000 self-titled debut and 2002's Saint The Fire Show (Pitchfork: 7.9 and 8.7 respectively), plus an LP of live performances featuring the four-man band and the live-looping two-man band. The 180g colored vinyl - one red, one white, one black - comes in a beautiful Folkways-style jacket with a pair of inserts.
"The Fire Show demonstrate all the attributes of their two and a half albums: the ambition and the brilliance, the poetry and the deeply, almost desperately felt politics, the fireworks and the bomb-dropping. Stark, dubbish funk with punk penknife and splatter; left-wing epics constructed from right angles, made by (sm)art school punks interested in the feet and the brain, the ground and the lofty heavens."
(Jay Babcock, L.A. Weekly)
"A dark, unpredictable maelstrom of ideas, emotion and haywire technology, at times disquietingly calm and at others in danger of running completely off the rails... [a] masterpiece."
(Joe Tangari, Pitchfork)
"Too difficult and prickly to be absorbed and spit out by any
trend, The Fire Show's legacy is destined to be discovered in its ashes by future artists, it's spirit an inspiration for continued creativity and
artistic bravery rather than mimicry."
(Tony Dorston, Fast n' Bulbous)
"Titanic grooves punctured sparingly but meaningfully by bursts of angular guitar and coruscating electronics... The rhythmic patterns are wonderfully convoluted, hinting that the songs might implode at any given moment."
(Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader)
Includes unlimited streaming of The Fire Show ~ Here Lies The Fire Show: Recordings 2000 - 2002
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Saint The Fire Show Test Pressing in Candy-Grape-Swirl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited Edition of 4. Test pressings of Saint The Fire Show on candy-grape-swirl vinyl in plain white label sleeves. (Includes download of Here Lies The Fire Show.)
Includes unlimited streaming of The Fire Show ~ Here Lies The Fire Show: Recordings 2000 - 2002
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Twenty years after the band's dissolution The Fire Show is finally available on vinyl. This 3-LP set collects the band's two proper albums: their 2000 self-titled debut and 2002's Saint The Fire Show (Pitchfork: 7.9 and 8.7 respectively), plus an LP of live performances featuring the four-man band and the live-looping two-man band. The 180g colored vinyl - one red, one white, one black - comes in a beautiful Folkways-style jacket with a pair of inserts.
"The Fire Show demonstrate all the attributes of their two and a half albums: the ambition and the brilliance, the poetry and the deeply, almost desperately felt politics, the fireworks and the bomb-dropping. Stark, dubbish funk with punk penknife and splatter; left-wing epics constructed from right angles, made by (sm)art school punks interested in the feet and the brain, the ground and the lofty heavens."
(Jay Babcock, L.A. Weekly)
"A dark, unpredictable maelstrom of ideas, emotion and haywire technology, at times disquietingly calm and at others in danger of running completely off the rails... [a] masterpiece."
(Joe Tangari, Pitchfork)
"Too difficult and prickly to be absorbed and spit out by any
trend, The Fire Show's legacy is destined to be discovered in its ashes by future artists, it's spirit an inspiration for continued creativity and
artistic bravery rather than mimicry."
(Tony Dorston, Fast n' Bulbous)
"Titanic grooves punctured sparingly but meaningfully by bursts of angular guitar and coruscating electronics... The rhythmic patterns are wonderfully convoluted, hinting that the songs might implode at any given moment."
(Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader)
credits
released December 20, 2022
M. Resplendent ~ voice/guitar/sample/drums
Olias Nil ~ guitar/electric piano/bass/voice
with contributions from:
Eric Roth, Brian Lubinsky, John 'Pyx' Klos, Joe Adamik, Ben Masarella, Tim Rutili, Aliana Kalaba, Bob Bihlman, Drew Morgan, Arnie Roth, Jeb Bishop, and Brett Dietz
Recorded by his majesty, Brian Deck, assisted by Graham Gibson
Artwork for this reissue by Seth Kim-Cohen, assisted by Rebecca Cohen
Reissued by In Situ Sound (Chicago)
Mastered by Carl Saff (Chicago)
Cut by Smashed Plastic (Chicago)
Jackets printed by Stoughton Printing (not Chicago)
Originally released on Perishable Records (Chicago) - Thanks, Tim & Benny!
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant." - Emily Dickinson
license
Some rights reserved. Please refer to individual track pages for license info.
The Fire Show & related things involving Olias Nil and/or
M. Resplendent.
"Stark, dubbish
funk with punk penknife and splatter; left-wing epics constructed from right angles, made by (sm)art school punks interested in the feet and the brain, the ground and the lofty heavens."
(Jay Babcock,
L.A. Weekly)...more
supported by 11 fans who also own “The Fire Show ~ Here Lies The Fire Show: Recordings 2000 - 2002”
found these cos JimmyJack Toth tweeted about em. he said they been cranking out the sort of stuff Wilco got fêted for after YHF since day one. 1st I watched tour doc Made a Machine By Describing The Landscape. now I'm all the way in. baffled. delighted. endlessly carried and shook by the jinks and feints, music made with no ulterior motive. nobody does it like em. via Chicago or anywhere else. eldudowski
Brooklyn-based artist Devin McKnight makes terrifically experimental pop music, pairing skewed guitar arrangements with sly hooks. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 19, 2022
WALL's debut LP is also their last, as the band is no more - bittersweet. Experimental post-punk that works in light & shade. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 1, 2017
Kansas City trio Flooding draw out the more mystical qualities of slowcore and noise rock for a heavy sound that's less stony than doom. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 26, 2023
supported by 9 fans who also own “The Fire Show ~ Here Lies The Fire Show: Recordings 2000 - 2002”
Play this album in the loudest system you can find, set to 11 and blow you and your neighbours minds. I find interchanging this with Carcass and early Killing Joke a great antidote for any niceness that creeps into my soul. pablo6580