ARTIST: Brindley Brothers
TITLE: Filled With Fire
LABEL: AER Music
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 43:54 min
SIZE:  65,5 MB
RIP DATE: Jul-13-2006
RELEASE DATE: Jul-12-2006
WEBSITE: n/a

Track List:

01. Rise Above                                 03:50
02. Man On Fire                                03:30
03. Everybody Wants                            03:51
04. Angel                                      03:50
05. Death In The City                          03:18
06. Grace                                      04:05
07. Hurricane                                  03:16
08. Saturday Night                             03:35
09. Up All Night                               03:33
10. Afterglow                                  03:44
11. Late Summer                                03:55
12. Keep Me In Your Heart                      03:27

Release Notes:

"Who started this fire and left it to burn?" asks
Luke Brindley on "Angel," an elegiac track from the
critically acclaimed Brindley Brothers' second
album, Filled With Fire. "Now look behind us, all
our yesterdays are gone." The eloquent and heartfelt
"Filled With Fire," follows up the band's critically
acclaimed Playing With the Light released in 2004.

Brindley Brothers is a Washington, DC based band led
by singer/songwriter/guitarist Luke Brindley. Luke
is joined by his brother Daniel on bass, keys and
vocals and brother-in-law Jared Bartlett on guitar.
Luke and Daniel both grew up in New Jersey, played
in various bands and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with
music degrees.

They began writing and performing together while
attending university in 2000. The next year, they
released an acoustic record, "How Faint the
Whisper," under Luke's name. The record received
high praise in such national magazines as Acoustic
Guitar and Performing Songwriter. Soon after
September 11th, the Brothers relocated to the
Washington, DC area to open and operate Jammin'
Java, a 200 seat music venue recently named one of
Top 100 Clubs in the world by Pollstar.

The Brothers attribute a part of their musical
evolution to their club. "We'd be completely
different musicians if we hadn't had the experience
of running this club together," says Daniel who with
his brother has seen hundreds of performers, both
local and national. "It's given us the chance to
observe and pick apart the subtle things that
separate a great band from a merely good one."

The Brothers' observations paid off. In 2004, the
Brindley Brothers signed to Paste Records and
released "Playing With the Light," which was hailed
by The Washington Post as "magical...a pop/rock
gem...an early contender for one of the best albums
of 2004" and was named by Paste Magazine as one of
the Top 12 Debut Records of 2004 (alongside other
familiar names as Franz Ferdinand, Jem, Jamie Collum
and more).

Rolling Stone said, "Fans of Wilco and Gin Blossoms
will swoon." And fans have responded. The Brothers
have sold several thousand copies of "Playing With
the Light," received incredible press, toured
extensively, appeared on numerous radio and
television programs and have played and sold-out
some of the best venues on the east coast.

Like the last album, "Filled With Fire" showcases
the band's diversity and mastery of various pop
styles dovetailed with smart, thoughtful lyrics -
the visceral rock of "Rise Above" and "Hurricane",
the power-pop of "Up All Night", the light-hearted
pop of "Saturday Night", the euphoric and hopeful
"Man on Fire", the mystical, meditative alt/folk of
"Late Summer" and "Keep Me in Your Heart". Despite
the musical variety, the songs and the performances
are unified by their sincerity and passion.

"Filled With Fire" deals with the rediscovery of
life, love, faith, compassion, hope, struggle and
transcendence in a modern, post-belief world. "For
this record, I had about 30 finished songs. We
recorded a little more than half of them and 11 of
those made it to the record. I don't always know
what the song is about until much later. We took
foster care of a relative's baby born addicted to
heroin in 2005 and many of the songs were inspired
by this experience. And, as usual, a lot of songs
about New Jersey, light, highways and fire."

The band entered the studio in the Fall of 2005 with
producer Jim Ebert (Butch Walker, Meredith Brooks,
Matthew Ryan) to record. In order to capture the
urgency and cohesiveness of a great rock band, the
production team did much of the tracking live over
the course of a week. Additional tracking was done
over the next few months in various DC-area studios.

Filled With Fire was mixed by Jim Ebert and young,
up-and-coming producer Jared Bartlett (guitarist in
the Brindley Brothers) and mastered by NYC-based
Fred Kevorkian (Ryan Adams, White Stripes, Jesse
Mallin).