New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Punk/Electro-Rock artist FIRES returns with their sophomore album All of My Dreams Are of This Place, which is set to be released on
Negative Gain on May 10, 2019.
After the successful release of their first album Red Goes Grey in 2017, FIRES is back to bring raw emotion with their new album. After recently coming out as a female, vocalist/composer AJ gave some insight into the new album and the true emotions behind it...
"This album represents a culmination of past lives and new beginnings, both sonically and thematically. While All Of My Dreams Are Of This Place bears little semblance to the music of Red Goes Grey, the concepts remain the same: finding power in what hurts you, learning to grow, and being a better self."
All of My Dreams Are of This Place
1.Show Me Life
2.Through
Black Skies
3.Revive
4.Surviving On Bits Of Bitterness
5.Ever
6.Inside Her Lungs
7.Best Made Plans
8.All Of My Dreams Are Of This Place
9.The Bright And Terrifying
About Fires
FIRES has three hard and fast rules: "1. It has to make me want to dance 2. It has to make me feel something 3. It has to be pop.". Aedra Oh to amodelofcontrol, 2017.
It was with these three simple ideas that FIRES was based on when the project began in 2016. Remove the filler tracks, the needless two minute turn arounds, add in a synth solo here and there, but above everything else: Make it real. Make it pop. The attention to songwriting was noticed immediately, and FIRES signed to North American industrial label Metropolis Records for their 2017 release, Red Goes Grey, a synthwave goes electronic rock album that contained Counting Walls, a track that lit up the dance floors.
Immediately after the album release, FIRES began touring to support the record. Between three east coast and midwest tours that included stops at Terminus Festival and Sanctuary Festival, Where FIRES Shared the stage with bands like Covenant, TR/ST, Mesh, Suicide Commando, Boy Harsher, and ACTORS, frontwoman Aedra Oh wrote the next album to add to a growing repertoire of tracks suited for the frenetic energy of FIRES live shows.
On May 10th, FIRES sophomore effort, All Of My Dreams Are Of This Place will be released through
Negative Gain Productions. The album shares some similarities to Red Goes Grey with its attention to Pop songwriting, hooks, and nods to electronic rock, but this album shares more in common with AFI, The Killers, Drug Church, and
Placebo than its predecessor. From the inclusion of guitars throughout the album to the use of live drums, All Of My Dreams is a mission statement: It's time to move forward. The album is unflinchingly turned inward, honest, and raw. From the triumphant post-hardcore adjacent opener Show Me Life to the closing refrain of The Bright And Terrifying, this is an album that exceeds the promises made by Red Goes Grey, turning away from a past that was marred with insecurity, towards a brighter, more real future.
