FIRE IN THE RADIO - "MONUMENTS"

Release Date: April 3, 2020 Label: Wednesday Records

Photograph by Richard Carbone. Download the high res cover art here. — Photograph by Richard Carbone. Download the high res cover art here .

HIGHLIGHTS:

“Monuments delivers a knockout.” - Kerrang!

“Full throated rock n’ roll.” - Bandcamp “New and Notable”

“Philadelphia’s Fire In The Radio bring their signature fusion of punk and indie to their latest release.”- Alternative Press

“The band’s third album Monuments may just be a monumental moment in their career.” - The Line of Best Fit

"A fantastic rock band who have just made a potential classic.” - Maximum Volume

"Fire In The Radio may have inadvertently written the soundtrack to this global pandemic.” - Modern Free Press

“Monuments is an easy Album of the Year contender! Excellent, excellent stuff!!!” - Oklahoma Lefty

Tracks added to Spotify editorial playlists, including New Punk Tracks, Punk Unleashed, and Skatepark Punks.

Tracks added to Apple editorial playlists, including The New Rock, Breaking Rock, Jumpstart, and Rise and Grind.

Additional premiers and features at Exclaim!, Flood Magazine, Magnet Magazine, New Noise Magazine, Rock Sound and more.

OVERVIEW:

There are occasions where a band reaches beyond its humble beginnings and insular scene and creates a cohesive set of memorable songs that wield the potential to make a more seismic and lasting impression. Enter Monuments, the third studio album from Philadelphia’s Fire in the Radio. Engineered and produced by Jesse Gander (Japandroids, White Lung), the album is the successor to the band’s 2017 critically acclaimed New Air LP, and is their most immediate, engaging, and confident record to date.

“Following New Air, we felt challenged to write an album that delivered fully on the promise of our prior effort. We took a Rick Rubin style approach to editing, creating songs that people who placed their trust in us would want to hear. We combined elements from our favorite records, while still attempting to deliver something that was fresh and visceral.

When we were writing these songs, one of our band members sent around a photograph taken on the Fourth of July. The faded fireworks and resulting haze were reminicent of historic monuments and rituals that had lost their significance in recent times. We separately liked the concept that songs can inspire and serve as monuments to a time and place of new beginnings. The juxtaposition of these competing ideas became a central theme of the new record.”

From the first note of the album’s opener, “Let’s Get To The Start,” to the haunting outro of the closing track, “Save Me,” Monuments finds the band embracing this theme while incorporating elements of new wave, grunge, and shoegaze drone into their unique brand of indie-punk. Lyrically, the band takes significant steps forward with the self-empowering “This Is My Document,” and blistering critique of the Catholic Church, “Sunday Cassock.” Along the way, the band gives nods to influences as diverse as R.E.M., The Cure, Archers of Loaf, Bob Mould, Jawbreaker, and The Hot Snakes, while crafting a record that is unapologetically grounded in punk rock and uniquely their own.

Line-up: Richard Carbone (vocals, guitar), Jonathan Miller (vocals, guitar), Adam Caldwell (drums), and Ed Olsen (bass).

PRIOR PRESS:

"This could really be a very brief review as only four words are necessary, i.e. You Need This Now...imagine late period Hüsker Dü growing up on early Merge albums and a copy of 24 Hour Revenge Therapy and you’ll understand how it doesn’t seem possible that anyone will release a better record this year." (5 out of 5)
- New Noise Magazine

"You know how sometimes you like a certain song because it has a melodic hook or a sweet guitar lick? But then there are these songs that hit you right in the feels and which are drop dead gorgeous. Well, here are seven of those." (9 out of 10) -Punk Rock Theory

"Fire in the Radio are a Philadelphia punk band who've been quietly acquiring quite the critical following since they released their acclaimed 2015 album "Telemetry," and "New Air" looks to inspire a whole new round of journalistic pant-wetting..." (8 out of 8) -Power Play

"Jawbreaker Fan? Meet Your New Favorite Band, Fire In The Radio!" - Washed Up Emo

Throughout "New Air" Fire in the Radio do the impossible in today's single buying/streaming only society: offer fans a collection of songs that each stay in your head while successfully crossing genres until the very end." - Rock and Roll Fables

"[New Air] is a product of a band desperate to be heard and is committed to making music that is both significant and stirring...Fire in the Radio take all the finest elements of 90s indie rock and grinds them into an awesome new form." -Jersey Beat

"Philadelphia natives Fire In The Radio opened the show with their upbeat brand of indie rock. Playing a set of songs that draw heavily in style and delivery from '90s acts like Superchunk and Jawbreaker, the four-piece managed to find a balance between raging punk outbursts and moments of subtlety." - Exclaim

"If you took the angst and emotion of bands like Off With Their Heads and The Menzingers, the soulful melodic hooks of The Gaslight Anthem, the honest of The Wonder Years, and the no-bullshit approach of the sorely underrated Beach Slang, you'd end up with the budding, Philadelphia-based melodic punk outfit, Fire in the Radio." - Kill Your Stereo

"With the hooks of Gaslight Anthem, The leads of The Menzingers, and the melodies of classic melodic punk, Fire In The Radio combines their elements to form their new album,Telemetry....Fire In The Radio might just be the catchiest band in their genre. Their melodic songs are filled with powerful riffs and emotional vocals. Telemetry is a testimony to Fire In The Radio’s strength to write indulgently catchy songs that will never lose their luster." - PunkNews.org

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Impose (Exclusive)
Substream Magazine (Exclusive)
Diffuser.fm(Exclusive)
QRO Magazine (Most Anticipated Albums of Spring 2017)
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