TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Fire Divine

TITLE: It's All A Blur

LABEL: Deep Elm

RIPPER: Team RNS

254kbps avg - Indie
0hr 15min total- 30.2mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-04-06
RIP DATE: 2004-02-26

01 Clark And Rightwood            2:35
02 Reputation Outlives Application3:31
03 We Ride On Sunbeams            4:00
04 Smoke And Mirrors              5:43

FIRE DIVINE (featuring members of The June
Spirit and A Life Once Lost) has
achieved the rare feat of bringing that
blustery, guttural sound normally
confined to smoky bars and dank clubs
to compact disc, sans sheen. This debut,
IT'S ALL A BLUR, features roaring guitars
teeming with an array of songful
textures and drums with hammer, stomp
and bite to spare. There's something to
be said for a vocalist like Ian Musgrove,
a singer who can instill incalculable
passion into a song with absolutely no
pretense. Opener 'Clark And Rightwood'
leaves no questions unanswered with its
guitar revs straight out of Hell's
Angels and Ian Musgrove's visceral,
emotional vocals. 'Reputation Outlives
Application' could rightly be described
as melodic mayhem, amalgamating
bullet-train rhythms, low-key strumming
and mid-tempo fireworks. Fire Divine
embodies the spirit and intensity that
made rock and roll the vast cultural
movement it was at its outset. Sure,
it's easy enough to hear the music. But
how often do you actually feel it like