ARTIST: Fairmont
TITLE: Transcendence
LABEL: Mint 400 Records
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 220kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 34m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-07-00
RIP DATE: 2008-07-18
Track List
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1. Being & Nothingness 5:29
2. Nowhere, Mass 3:53
3. Omaha 3:33
4. Prick 3:24
5. Everyone Hates A Critic 2:20
6. Luck Will Change 3:10
7. True Love Waits For Me 2:51
8. Awkward Silence 3:10
9. Please Don't Go 2:44
10. Melt Your Heart 4:16
Release Notes:
This all sounds kind of nice, like maybe there was a plan, but in actuality it
all played out more like Spinal Tap.Neil Sabatino started playing guitar in the
early nineties, before myspace hit counters and ôLOL OMG I LOVE [Insert Band
Name Here]ö Facebook Groups.
Those were the days (supposedly) of street cred and artistic integrity. Neil
found himself with plenty of both those thing, playing with a couple of popular
bands with people that would later make lots of money. He first established
himself in punk outfit Stick Figure Suicide (who appeared with the Bouncing
Souls, Saves the Day, AntiFlag, H20, blah, blah, blah) and played on the Vans
Warped Tour. Eventually, he joined NJ indie rock staplesPencey Prep, playing
alongside future My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero. It wasnÆt long before
they were signed to Eyeball Records and playing high profile shows with
Thursday, Nada Surf, and The Strokes. They also played the inaugural New Jersey
Surf and Skate Fest with New Found Glory and Brand New in front of 4,000 fans.
Basically, they were starting to feel like rock stars and had a nice list of
names to drop. But just as they could taste success (oh, sweet success--it melts
on your tongue!) the band began to fall apart. Touring, disputes within the
band, tensions with the label,all embittered Sabatino as he watched Pencey Prep
implode.
From the burning wreckage of SabatinoÆs former band a phoenix arose, and while
Neil scoffed at this imagery, he named this fledgling bird Fairmont. Neil wrote
songs thematically influenced by his disillusionment and began to experiment and
grow musically, applying ideas he learned at art school to his music and
developing his philosophy of ôless is more.ö It was this technique that allowed
him to create material refreshingly different from the three chord and melodic
emo being recorded at the time. Fairmont (which was at that point a solo
acoustic project) was signed to Reinforcement Records in August 2001.Once a band
was assembled, Fairmont released their debut LP Pretending Greatness is
Awaiting. Their second album, Anomie, appeared in 2003 and featured current
drummer Andy Applegate. It received some local airplay anddid well online, but
it was FairmontÆs 2005 album Hell Is Other People (produced by New London
Fire/Sleep Station front man Dave Debiak) that received the most attention. The
albumÆs adoption of existentialist philosophy ironically garnered them the most
popularity; it was in regular rotation on several college radio stations and
received the occasional spinon huge commercial stations like Q104.3 in New York
and even a live set on G Rock 106.3 in New Jersey. Some people in the press
wrote about Fairmont like they were some new pantheon of indie rock gods.