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Track Listings
1 Uncle Mountain 4:03
2 Waste Time Segue 3:14
3 Oceans Apart 4:16
4 Chain 4:15
5 Backwards Blues 3:43
6 Summertime 2:46
7 Houses 4:01
8 Waste Time 14:49
9 Heaven 4:15
10 Rubber Bands 4:12
11 It's Over 4:01
12 Sinatra 4:01
13 Untitled 4:22
 

Discography
The Fire Theft (2003)


 

Release Date: (September 23, 2003)
Label: Rykodisc
Producer:


December  Hotel 
Overall Rating:  +++-

(Oceans Apart)
Album Review
Don't call it a comebackor a reunion or a one-off or a side project. The self- titled CD by the Fire Theft, to be released later this month on Rykodisc, is a debut album by a new band. Sure, the band happens to include three of the four founding members of Sunny Day Real Estate. But they're not looking back, so why should we? Given Sunny Day's tumultuous past, any closer scrutiny of this latest project will cause the whole thing to tumble, house-of-cards style, onto the cold, dirty ground. Luckily, the Fire Theft has still got the chops to withstand the industry attention that the band's stature and soap opera story line have earned them. Even though guitarist/vocalist Jeremy Enigk, bassist Nate Mendel, and drummer William Goldsmith haven't performed together since 1995, the band members still sound like they can read each other's minds, trading Sunny Day's tightly coiled zig-zags for a looser, unrestrained sound derived more from classic rock. Bloggers who've spent years analyzing the willfully cryptic Enigk's lyrics may be surprised to hear that the Fire Theft aim for clarity. Broad-stroke power chords support such lyrics as "I thought that I was crazy/All along it was just a girl" and "Change all around us/Change in everything you see." Enigk's vocals still keen and careen, and the songs retain Sunny Day's searching spiritual ache, but the lyrical directness and affectionate nods to the Beach Boys and the Who reveal a group of musicians finding their voicejust what you'd expect from a new band touring behind its debut CD

~ Chris Lorraine

 

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