ARTIST: Some By Sea
TITLE: On fire! (Igloo)
LABEL: Sidecho Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 202kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 10m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-02-21
RIP DATE: 2005-12-25
Track List
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1. An Introduction: You Can't Just 2:00
Walk Away From Someone Who Is
Leaning On You
2. A Night Without A Cineplex 6:36
3. This Song Is Not About You, So 4:47
Don't Ask
4. One More Day Goes By 5:29
5. The Things We All Carry Around 4:58
6. The Beginning Of The World 6:46
Often Comes
7. The Saddest Christmas 6:01
8. Look What I Made Without Your 5:28
Heart Getting In The Way
9. Fables (Kentucky Social) 4:31
10. Darling, Here's The Best Part 6:06
11. Under The Cyclone 5:29
12. Only One Bullet 12:21
Release Notes:
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Whatever Else Anyone Believes In.
Helmed by producer David Nichols (Time To Fly, tex.) starting in March 2005,
Some By Sea sporadically pieced their recordings together around the various
members' schedules in Tacoma over the course of three months, completing a total
of 17 songs. Five were allotted for the band's self-released EP The Saddest
Christmas and the remaining dozen for their SideCho debut and sophomore album,
on fire! (igloo). The 70-minute, 12-song on fire! (igloo) found the band "taking
the sound that we had before and just improving upon it," becoming more epic
with certain tracks, infusing a variety of styles and genres, yet all the while
maintaining their overall sense of direction. "I'm very confident that we pulled
it off," Du Bray says. "The biggest goal to everyone, I think, is to make a
record that if we weren't in the group, we'd actually want to sit down and
listen to over and over again. It's a group of five complete music nerds and
we're our own biggest critics." As for these five critics' seemingly odd choice
in album title selection, Du Bray offers a rather logical response that's
reflective of the band's forward-thinking idealism. "If you get fire around an
igloo, it'll melt instantly. It's a tenuous thing and with the least amount of
effort can just be destroyed. And I think that going into this recording and
hearing the reviews that were putting us into these classifications, we felt
like an igloo that was about to catch on fire. It's just one of those images
that felt kind of perfect, something that hopefully can never happen and a
direction that we don't want to go. We don't want to be the igloo that burns to
the ground!"