Just A Fire – Spanish Time CD
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Just A Fire – Spanish Time CD
"Among my most anticipated records of 2006, I eagerly and anxiously awaited the latest from Doug Scharin's jazz project HiM, Uzeda's Stella, and Just a Fire's Spanish Time. Sonic Youth's Rather Ripped was perfect, and then Dr. Octagon 2 proved Kool Keith might not be THAT evil after all. My record collection had a solid year.
The music world orbits right around our swollen punk rock heads. We've never been short for stars to bring light to our minds or our ears. In spite of this, there are still countless records that slip through the cracks, waterfalls of worthy bands playing to unsubstantial crowds of uninterested people. There's just too many bands for one to stay aware of all of them, so most folk don't even bother. Hellshit, with all those cool colorful CD cases you got in your closet, why should you care so much about this one?
For starts, all three of the members of Chicago's Just a Fire have done time in a few of the most influential, unique, expressive, and often devastating bands in the history of music. Namely, June of 44, the Crownhate Ruin, Hoover, Abilene, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Haymarket Riot, and the scariest part is, there's more, too. These guys just work harder. As a sidenote, these bands are all on labels that prove to release consistently diverse, engaging, strong albums: Dischord, Touch and Go, Slowdime, 54-40 or Fight!, Thick Records... All revered avenues for getting art to anyone who cares enough to find out what they're offering. (If you have close to $6, go ahead and buy Abilene's Two Guns, Twin Arrows, and bask in it.)
As for the record... Noise rockin' guitar, intricate, chaotic drumming, smooth, churning, fluid dub-inflected bass lines, and soaring, yelling vocals colide to make this my favorite record of the year. These three musicians, rather than setting their collective back catalogs ablaze, have laid the grout in the gaps between each one of their previous releases, while remaining social, friendly, too-cool-to-be-rockstar kinda guys." - Funkisdead