Open Choir Fire
In Each Appropriate Everlasting And Not
© 2006 Open Choir Fire (751937286226)
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A new band: Open Choir Fire.
"Based on a five-song EP, OCF has the potential to be one of the more vigorous rock bands around Seattle.
Open Choir Fire landed a top-notch producer — Johnny Sangster (Mudhoney, Murder City Devils), at Egg Studios — to track its new EP, "In Each Appropriate, Everlasting and Not. " While the title leans toward pretentious, the album avoids the cute: Its five songs are forward-moving, driving toward a goal ... even if the goal is not always spelled out in black and white. The sound at various times faintly echoes early Modest Mouse, Juno's moody urgency, a few dashes of Queens of the Stone Age — singer Amo DelBello sounds a bit like QOTSA's Josh Homme."
---Tom Scanlon
Seattle Times
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More than the Sum
author: CHINASKICombining 80’s D.C. hardcore, the jerky rhythms of The Pixies, and the guitar fireworks of Sonic Youth, Open Choir Fire create melodic and catchy post-punk music that is more than the sum of their influences. The best song on their EP is the first track “Things You Have to Do,” which opens with a Motorhead guitar riff and then starts and stops like The Pixies produced by the DFA.
- author: CD Baby
While Open Choir Fire leaves hints of the Pixies, Fugazi and Jawbox on the brain, their focal point is one of distilled inspiration without extraneous additives and preservatives, without imitation and derivative writing. With an ability to be simultaneously jerky and abrupt, screamy and excitable as well as helplessly pretty and effortlessly sweet, the broad palette they draw from spins quite an album of color and style from grunge to indie to emo and back, all the while pulling their listeners along like a fish hook through the navel. Yes, there is something raw and gutsy, brash and unapologetic driving these songs but in only five tracks, this group stirs up some serious fun.
I likes me some ocf
author: the grazeOpen Choir Fire is a great band, and they're especially good live. This CD captures their live energy in all its glory, while the performances remain flawlessly executed and produced. That's quite a trick. Each song on this CD is fantastic, though "Oh Grace" is probably my favorite.