ISSUE Project Room is pleased to present the premiere performance of Flaming Fire II, the new incarnation of Flaming Fire, rising like a glorious phoenix out of the ashes of their smoldering remains.
LYDSOD
Debut record from this Brooklyn-based group, Ancient Age spawns similarities with the Koi Pond release from 2008, but whereas that was a more mischievous try (subversive, yet suggesting that a pretty vehement sound should be digested with a laid-back attitude), Lydsod have created a more directly-assaulting approach. Their distributors note they’re a collective devoted to an ideology of non-stop recording and, in consequence, Ancient Age displays the reassembled highlights of a year and a half’s worth of group improvisations.
Interestingly, this is quite a cohesive collection for such a fragmentary recording ethos. Situated somewhere between the free-wheeling attitude of straight-out psych-noise bands and the integration of pop sensibilities that quasi-noise-rock bands are into nowadays, Lydsod’s try at recorded work still manages to “rock out” in a fairly conservative way, impression probably induced by the Krautrock-like beats that pop up here and there. The dividing line which sets them between the two is probably the absence of vocals, a fairly rightful decision. (”by chance upon waking” LP release review)
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“The Brooklyn-based collective Flaming Fire is more like an evangelical church congregation than like a conventional rock group, with its leader, Patrick Hambrecht, in the role of preacher and the other members (including his wife, Kate) as his loyal followers. The group’s songs pair deceptively simple Residents-like riffs and occasional bursts of noise with fearsome, Biblical-sounding group chants and call-and-response singing. Most refreshing are Hambrecht’s seriousness and fervor. (The band’s sense of irony is limited to the darker variety — ‘Kill the Right People,’ one refrain goes.)” - The New Yorker
“Well, at least some of the kooks have stuck it out in New York City and they are in Flaming Fire, an awesomely kooky, theatrical band singing songs of biblical plagues and Egyptian sexual practices. Picture the Butthole Surfers, the Residents, the Manson Family, and the B-52s all running amok in a Kenneth Anger film.” - Meg Sneed, Vice