Fire In The Radio share video for new single ‘Ex-SF’

Fire In The Radio press photo
Credit: Jessica Flynn

Fire In The Radio have shared the video for their new single Ex-SF. The track is lifted from their new album ‘Monuments’, which will be out on 3rd April via Wednesday Records. Watch the video clip via YouTube below.

There are occasions where a band reaches beyond their humble beginnings and insular scene and creates a cohesive set of memorable songs that wield the potential to make a more seismic and lasting impression. Enter ‘Monuments,’ the third studio album from Philadelphia’s Fire in the Radio. Engineered and produced by Jesse Gander (Japandroids, White Lung), the album is the successor to the band’s 2017 critically acclaimed ‘New Air’ LP, and is their most immediate, engaging, and confident record to date.

The band said “Following New Air, we felt challenged to write an album that delivered fully on the promise of our prior effort. We took a Rick Rubin style approach to editing, creating songs that people who placed their trust in us would want to hear. We combined elements from our favourite records, while still attempting to deliver something that was fresh and visceral.

When we were writing these songs, one of our band members sent around a photograph taken on the Fourth of July. The faded fireworks and resulting haze were reminiscent of historic monuments and rituals that had lost their significance in recent times. We separately liked the concept that songs can inspire and serve as monuments to a time and place of new beginnings. The juxtaposition of these competing ideas became a central theme of the new record.”

From the first note of the album’s opener, Let’s Get To The Start, to the haunting outro of the closing track, Save Me, ‘Monuments’ finds the band embracing this theme while incorporating elements of new wave, grunge, and shoegaze drone into their unique brand of indie-punk. Lyrically, the band takes significant steps forward with the self-empowering This Is My Document, and blistering critique of the Catholic Church, Sunday Cassock. Along the way, the band gives nods to influences as diverse as R.E.M., The Cure, Archers of Loaf, Bob Mould, Jawbreaker, and The Hot Snakes, while crafting a record that is unapologetically grounded in punk rock and uniquely their own.

Fire In The Radio Monument cover artwork

Tracklisting
1. Let’s Get To The Start
2. Gravity
3. Tulare
4. Rewind
5. I Said
6. EX-SF
7. This Is My Document
8. Sunday Cassock
9. Breaking
10. Sing, Sang, Sung
11. Save Me