The Year Dot, by Firestations

The Year Dot

by Firestations

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Seb Brennan Love this album; the whole thing's great but the run on side two from Blue Marble through to Lightning Strike is just wonderful. Favorite track: From Here.

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1.	Build A Building 04:31	buy track
2.	Make Your Own Mind Up 03:55	buy track
3.	Receiver 03:43	buy track
4.	Old Letters 04:23	buy track
5.	Holdouts 04:19	buy track
6.	Blue Marble 04:17	buy track
7.	Far Future Morning 03:43	buy track
8.	Pyramid Schemes 04:24	buy track
9.	From Here 03:33	buy track
10.	Lightning Strike 03:35	buy track

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Firestations are Mike Cranny, Laura Copsey, Martin Thompson, Giles Littleford and Tom Hargreaves. They write lyrical alt-pop songs filtered through joyous surges of collective noise-making and bursts of electronic sound from synths and guitars. They released their acclaimed debut album Never Closer at the end of 2014. After much gigging to support it, including festival outings to Indietracks, Aaaahfest in Germany and Indiefjord in Norway, they hunkered down to record a follow-up.

On The Year Dot, Firestations have refined and expanded on their shared obsession – sketching simple pop songs then painting over them with drones, vocal harmonies, electronica and unusual rhythms. Much as The Year Dot is a true DIY effort in its creation – made over the best part of three years in a small home studio in Walthamstow, the north circular hissing in the near distance – it’s by no means a lo-fi album.

“We spent a lot of time obsessing over making it a really absorbing listen” says Mike, “it’s a distillation of dreaming away the days on the outskirts, flickering between dead-end admin jobs, depression, writing lyrics on my phone, running through local woods, recording drums in industrial units, periods of hopelessness and moments of joy.”

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released April 6, 2018

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