Amusement Parks on Fire

1. 23 Jewels

2. Venus In Cancer

3. Eighty Eight

4. Wiper

5. Venosa

6. Asphalt (interlude)

7. Smokescreen

8. The Ramones Book

9. Local Boy Makes God

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Amusement Parks on Fire

Average customer rating: Out of the basement, into the stereo.

Out of the Angeles Amusement Parks on Fire Manufacturer: V2 Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Darker My Love After Years Lesser Matters Pet Grief Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters ASIN: B000F3AHQY Release Date: 2006-07-10

Tracks:

1. Out Of The Angeles
2. Star Is Born
3. At Last The Night
4. In Flight
5. To The Shade
6. So Mote It Be
7. Blackout
8. Await Lightning
9. No Lite No Sound
10. Cut To Future Shock

Album Details

Second Album from the Nottingham Based Four Piece Outfit. Four Star Review in Aug 2006 UK Uncut Magazine.

Customer Reviews:

Out of the basement, into the stereo........2006-08-11

Their name is one that simultaneously conjures feelings of joy and sadness, but the ride doesn't stop there. Amusement Parks on Fire songs are propelled by warm floods of galvanized guitar fuzz; soaringly simplistic synth lines; and warbling, ghostly vocals that fade in and out of the perfectly-stirred stew of "Out of the Angeles."

Escaping the scrutiny placed on anyone releasing an album recorded in a basement shouldn't be too difficult for the UK's Michael Feerick, also known as Amusement Parks on Fire, if this new record is any indication of the direction his band will take. While the eponymous "Amusement Parks on Fire" was an impressive recording given its circumstances, it was also predictably muddied and shrunken by the limitations of self-composition, production, recording and performing a full length release. But if the reviews for that album were any indication, this band is a supernova, and the shockwave is only now about to hit the United States and the rest of the world.

Fans of the shoegaze music of yore (My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, all the old standbys) have little reason not to fall in love with this album. To open the record, Feerick demonstrates virtuosic skill at manipulating emotion with sound. The title track takes a slow dive through soupy atmospherics, only to explode suddenly and viciously into a soaring emotional toccata propelled by loud, loud guitars and Feerick's very blendable voice-as-instrument. This falls directly in line with the philosophy of the shoegazers. Feerik describes himself instead as a "stargazer," but beginning with something that displays such passion and abandon is the best way to open any kind of record, regardless of genre labels.

My Bloody Valentine can be felt in the attention to detail heaped upon every nuance of sound, creating a sharply-focused symphony of distortion. The riffs summon up memories of Swervedriver, and Amusement Parks on Fire are clearly at their best in such a spot, spitting out slick, gnarly fuzzbombs like "In Flight" or "Blackout." Violin and tape manipulation lullabies ("At Last the Night," "So Mote It Be") bookend the presumed A/B sides of the record, and succeed as mere mood pieces, but are otherwise only adept at putting the listener to sleep.

The overall tone of such a record is difficult to pin down. On one hand, barely-contained energy and dynamics threaten (pardon the French) to blow the roof off the sucker. On the other hand, it's not quite what's called "hard rock" by most.

Meditation to "Out of the Angeles" is certainly possible. But the mood one would have to be in is hardly meditative in the Enya sense. Rather, there's a purposeful sense of urgency and danger felt throughout the album that evokes all kinds of confusing emotions and thoughts. Whether it gets used as the soundtrack to an interstate car chase or the soundtrack to doing laundry, this is music that suggests to the listener a destination.

Destination: out of the basement, into your stereo.

Average customer rating: Beyond shoegazing into loftier realms Effects Pedal Heaven Amusement Parks On Fire

Amusement Parks on Fire Amusement Parks on Fire Manufacturer: Reincarnate Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Out of the Angeles Darker My Love Broken Social Scene Set Yourself on Fire Angel Pool ASIN: B0009I7NY4 Release Date: 2005-05-31

Tracks:

1. 23 Jewels
2. Venus In Cancer
3. Eighty Eight
4. Wiper
5. Venosa
6. Asphalt (interlude)
7. Smokescreen
8. The Ramones Book
9. Local Boy Makes God

Customer Reviews:

Beyond shoegazing into loftier realms.......2005-07-14

What starts out as a thick mix, murkily summoning up many one-man, at-home recorded projects turns, with track 6, into a clearer, punchier, and more affecting sonic trajectory. It reminds me more of meatier bands from the 90s, Swervedriver (check out that band's retrospective "Juggernaut Rides") and The Catherine Wheel (badly in need of a B-sides anthology) as much as My Bloody Valentine and other, considerably softer shoegazers.

My criticism is that too much of the disc lacks individuality in the presentation, aesthetically and practically, of the vocal, guitar, bass, drums, and keys. The copy I have only shows one person, so I assume it's all done by him? Working with players besides himself might have given more personality and drive to many of these tracks, which float by in an agreeable but hardly vibrant haze until the lengthier, latter half of the album kicks in. I was very pleased by this part of the record, and I look forward to the maturation of this Nottingham studio whiz into a more fully-realized band in future efforts.

Rounded up to 4 stars for effort on the latter half; earlier half 3 stars at best. Overall, however, for any fans of the other bands and sounds mentioned here, worth a listen.

Effects Pedal Heaven.......2005-06-14

I put this CD in the player and immediately experienced a flashback to 1993. In fact, this would probably have been the Best Album of 1993. This album is absolutely ferociously good . . . an utter storm of effects pedal spaciness. It's amazing that this kid Feerick is only 19. I'm seeing a lot of My Bloody Valentine references attaching to this band, but that's not really what I hear. The touchstones here are Hum and Swervedriver, I think. Especially Hum. Amusement Parks on Fire calls to mind Hum's breakthrough CD, You'd Prefer an Astronaut, only smarter, more atmospheric, and with haunting piano bits. In a year of fake New Wave nostalgia and fake garage-punk bands, this record is a godsend.

Amusement Parks On Fire.......2005-06-11

Everything on commercial radio sounds the same; the music is packaged and the personalities of instruments and the nuances of songs are nonexistent. Anything unique gets squeezed out and in the end, the only diversity we'll be left with is Coke vs. Pepsi. So like everyone else here, I'm waiting for a miracle, perhaps even a messiah. Mike Feerick, brainchild of the band Amusement Parks On Fire, might just be the man I've been anticipating. He was just 16 years old when he began writing, composing and playing every instrument on his first record in Nottingham, England. Three years later, he emerged with a stunning debut album consisting of nine symphonic movements, which could easily wipe the floor with anything that plays on Clear Channel. "23 Jewels" is an orchestral introduction that seamlessly segues into the first single, "Venus In Cancer," an equally delicate but ferocious track. "Venosa," the second and current released single, is a surge of glides and swoops of white noise, which build up into a powerful crescendo. My favorite track, "Asphalt" is a piano loaded interlude enriched with a scraping violin, which could bring any emo kid to tears. APOF has been compared to My Bloody Valentine and titled "shoegazing," but there's more of a kick and an edge to their music than just delay and feedback. Take my advice: cut through the crap and look for what it's all meant to be about, good music. Amusement Parks On Fire is just that. Corporate standardized programming is not.

Average customer rating:

Out of the Angeles Amusement Parks on Fire Manufacturer: V2 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FTW8ZQ Release Date: 2006-07-31

Average customer rating:

Amusement Parks on Fire Amusement Parks on Fire Manufacturer: Invada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002HSDK0 Release Date: 2004-08-02

Tracks:

1. 23 Jewels
2. Venus in Cancer
3. Eighty Eight
4. Wiper
5. Venosa
6. Asphalt
7. Smokescreen
8. Ramones Book
9. Local Boy Makes God

Average customer rating:

Out of the Angeles ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000HCPTIE Release Date: 2006-08-29

Average customer rating:

Out of the Angeles Amusement Parks on Fire Manufacturer: V2 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FIMHTE Release Date: 2006-10-16

Tracks:

1. Out Of The Angeles
2. Star Is Born
3. At Last The Night
4. In Flight
5. To The Shade
6. So Mote It Be
7. Blackout
8. Await Lightning
9. No Lite No Sound
10. Cut To Future Shock

Album Description

Limited Edition pressing (CD + PAL/Region 0 DVD) of the sophomore album from this Noise-Pop band from Nottingham, England. The CD features ten new tracks including the single 'In Flight'. V2. 2006.

Average customer rating:

Blackout Ep Amusement Parks on Fire Manufacturer: V2 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Out of the Angeles ASIN: B000BTDM28 Release Date: 2005-11-15

Tracks:

1. Blackout
2. Solera La Reina
3. Motown Ritual
4. Back To Flash

Album Description

Amusement Parks On Fire have been whipping up a quiet storm since the release of their self-titled debut album in the U.K. in July last year.. Amusement Parks On Fire began life in the imagination of Nottingham teenager Michael Feerick. Playing nearly all of the instruments himself - guitars, bass, drums, vocals - he recorded the debut album in a local studio, drawing on the spirit of sonic adventure shared by such acts as The Pixies, Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine. Title track is backed by 'Solera La Reina', 'Motown Ritual' and 'Back To Flash'. V2. 2005.

Album Details

Amusement Parks on Fire have Been Whipping Up a Quiet Storm Since the Release of their Self-titled Debut Album in the UK in July Last Year.. Amusement Parks on Fire Began Life in the Imagination of Nottingham Teenager Michael Feerick. Playing Nearly all of the Instruments Himself - Guitars, Bass, Drums, Vocals - He Recorded the Debut Album in a Local Studio, Drawing on the Spirit of Sonic Adventure Shared by Such Acts as the Pixies, Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine

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