{"id":44629,"date":"2026-03-24T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=44629"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:25:45","slug":"fireball-kid-share-new-single-guilt-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=44629","title":{"rendered":"Fireball Kid share new single \u2018Guilt Drive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maritime expats turned Montrealers\u00a0<strong>Fireball Kid<\/strong>\u00a0are back, and they\u2019re mixing up the kind of indie rock that smells like summer dusk, campfire smoke, and coastal nostalgia. After making waves with their raucous, audacious party-pop debut\u00a0\u2018Emotional Bros Hotline\u2019\u00a0and the synth-laden patchwork epic\u00a0\u2018Gas Station,\u2019 the band\u2019s upcoming LP\u00a0\u2018Deer Path Turn To A Shortcut\u2019\u00a0takes a turn: swapping neon-lit energy for textured, acoustic vibes that feel like wandering through haunted port city hillsides with a lantern in one hand and a tall cold one in the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their music dives deep into the joy and heartbreak of partying, old family legends, and the ghost stories that stick with you long after the bonfire dies down. It\u2019s wistful, it\u2019s raw, and it\u2019s beautifully human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c<em>This record was a long time coming for me. I\u2019ve been writing about partying hard for almost as long and hard as I\u2019ve been partying. There\u2019s a way the hangovers and hangups of your predecessors echo into your own life, and I think there\u2019s a lot of sad, ghostly magic there\u2026 Everybody is just kind of soldering on with a few memories of dead friends flickering into their mind while you share a smoke with them. It\u2019s hard and it\u2019s beautiful. We\u2019re all following roughly defined desire lines through the woods!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On \u201cGuilt Drive\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The new single digs into a familiar, quietly powerful force: guilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cI thought I\u2019d somehow escaped the magic hereditary Irish or Scottish Catholic guilt gene, only to realize I\u2019m completely driven by it. She runs in the family, after all! Ultimately, we\u2019re letting our own drifting, accumulative guilt, secrets, and stories drive us off a cliff\u2014but that doesn\u2019t mean it has to be lonely. We can still wreck the truck in good company.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NZtTMGkcT_I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Deer Path Turn To A Shortcut\u2019\u00a0track list<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_7332.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_7332.jpeg?resize=555%2C509&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44632\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0903985722784058;width:738px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_7332.jpeg?w=555&amp;ssl=1 555w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_7332.jpeg?resize=300%2C275&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At Your Leisure<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brand New<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>King of the Lake<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Downhill Jog<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jackbob<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guilt Drive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hey Chucky (Shape of the Cross)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ponderosa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cellybratin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deuces<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>PRE-ORDER CD\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bornlosersrecords.com\/products\/fireball-kid-dear-path-to-a-shortcut-cd?variant=49996534055105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>FOLLOW FIREBALL KID:<br><a href=\"#\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"#\">Spotify<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"#\">Bandcamp<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"#\">TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Maritime expats turned Montrealers\u00a0Fireball Kid\u00a0are back, and they\u2019re mixing up the kind of indie rock that smells like summer dusk, campfire smoke, and coastal nostalgia. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=44629\" title=\"Fireball Kid share new single \u2018Guilt Drive\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,30,1907],"tags":[13213,13212,13211],"class_list":["post-44629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","category-news","tag-deer-path-turn-to-a-shortcut","tag-fireball-kid","tag-guilt-drive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_7331.jpeg?fit=804%2C617&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-bBP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27525,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27525","url_meta":{"origin":44629,"position":0},"title":"Deer shares &#8216;Wild Eyes&#8217; music video","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"December 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Mexican duet Deer have announced their new EP 'Portraits'.\u00a0The EP will be available on Spotify, iTunes, Deezer, Soundcloud and Bandcamp on March 2, 2018. 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