With their forthcoming album Phantoms, to be released September 17th, The Fire Tapes have continued to experiment with sonic textures and sprawling noise in the tradition of The Velvet Underground, while still pushing the envelope and blurring the lines of conventional genres, much in the vein of Brian Wilson or Gram Parsons.
Give yourself a taste with a download of the nine minute epic of rolling distortion and reverb ridden that is Scarlet Cliffs – like Emmylou Harris fronting Sonic Youth.
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