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The Fire Tapes are all about atmosphere. Regardless of whether you’re listening to their new album Dream Travel with a casual ear or an extremely attentive one, you’ll find a lot to take away from it.
Spacey, loose and washed out, listening to The Fire Tapes feels like floating in a Bacta Tank of soft melodies and heavy guitar effects. The band crafts the kind of music you can get lost in, drifting through an aural landscape, comfortable and relaxed. And yet, unlike the majority of bands who claim the same aural properties, The Fire Tapes write actual SONGS with pretty melodies and interesting guitar work. It’s this wonderful combination of elements that makes Dream Travel an album you want to listen to more than once.
Sister Machines
The album’s opening track, Sister Machines is a layer cake of pounding tom-heavy drum ostinatos and multiple distinct guitar lines playing independent-to-the-point-of-almost-clashing squeals and harmonics. On top of all this, the voice of guitarist/vocalist Betsy Wright teeters on the edge of speaking and singing before bursting into a lazy-cadenced belt and then falling back into a whisper. The overall effect is very nice, like a lazy chaos, if you can imagine that. In other words, it’s like a war between the ever-anchored rhythm section with the slightly chaotic dual guitars, wrapped in a blanket of sweet vocal melodies.
.matt

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The Fire Tapes are all about atmosphere. Regardless of whether you’re listening to their new album Dream Travel with a casual ear or an extremely attentive one, you’ll find a lot to take away from it.

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