Last Friday’s Heavy Event at St. Joseph’s Church in Albany, turned out to be an audio/visual treat. The cathedral towers over Ten Broeck Street in surrealist and ominous glory. Step inside and you’re greeted by 60+ foot high ceilings with multi-colored ambiant lights. The ethereal luminosity is merely the accent for the art that is showcased, carved, embedded, sprayed, and installed in every nook and cranny. Not an inch left to spare. The iPhone pix below do not do any justice, and if you get a chance you should attend any of the upcoming events. We had a great time playing besides the likes of Disposable Rocket Band, and we look forward to attending or playing future shows at the unique venue.
We’re excited about our first full-length album titled Crash Tender, and we hope you can make it to the show. There will be special appearances by Racing City Ghosts, Rawhead (Sub-bombin Records) and Midas (Sub-bombin Records). Here are some flyers (click on picture, and then right-click -> Save as… to download) so you can spread the word. They make great desktop wallpaper too…
If you can’t make it to the show you can still head over to iTunes and pick up a copy.
Indie rock trio Firefighter Font is proud to announce the release of its debut album Crash Tender now available on Sub-Bombin Records. The band combines driving beats, cutting guitars and large-hearted vocals on its first record, at times recalling the deconstructed pop of Spoon and Broken Social Scene, at others, The Bends-era Radiohead. Crash Tender was recorded by band members Damon Cook (bass), Adiro Patten (drums) and Greg Tebbano (guitar, vocals) over the period of a year in their Saratoga Springs practice space and finds the band augmenting its live guitar attack with pianos, horns and 8-bit synths. Post-production was handled by Ryan Ghent, who has worked on other Sub-Bombin projects including Rawhead’s Beatwise and Alchemy (2008).
Lyrically, the songs are subversive stabs at the ruling class, though on first listen break more towards the poetic than the political. The defining “Labour” is a stoic march, not into battle but against the very idea of it. “Man of Action” ponders a bank robbery and finds its down-on-his-luck protagonist making off with the cash to a two trumpet salute.
Firefighter Font is excited to partner with the increasingly eclectic Sub-Bombin Records for the release. Originally known for its beatmakers and MCs, Sub-Bombin’s roster of artists has expanded to include the experimental (Pandha Piranha, Ghoul Poon) and electro-pop (Birthdays, Phantogram). Firefighter Font shares the label’s emphasis on community and mutual support and has been organizing shows with Sub-Bombin musicians since its inception, making the alliance a logical progression.
Firefighter Font was formed in the summer of 2006 by Patten and Tebbano who had been making music together in various bands for over a decade. At that time Tebbano and Cook were co-workers and found themselves bonding over bands like Sonic Youth and the Velvet Underground. Cook was asked to join the band upon revealing he wrote his own music and had been hiding away a little-used bass guitar. In addition to splitting bills with its Sub-Bombin brethren the band has shared the stage with Beware! The Other Head of Science, The Mathematicians, Sea of Trees, Severe Severe, William Hale and John DeVries among others.
Crash Tender is available locally at DiVinyl Revolution, Last Vesitge, Four Seasons Natural Foods and on-line through CD Baby and iTunes.
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