An Archaea by Amusement Parks On Fire

Amusement Parks On Fire
release
“An Archaea”
out on June 25^th 2021

Born as the eremitic endeavour of an adolescent Michael Feerick, Amusement Parks On Fire emanated in around 2004 with the release of the eponymous debut album. Released on Geoff Barrow (Portishead, Beak>)’s Invada label, it was described by the New Musical Express as ‘hedonistic teenage genius’.
The venture grew almost immediately into an acclaimed international live act, sharing the stage with Dinosaur Jr , M83 and dEUS among innumerable other acts of the era. The unit then retreated to Sigur Rós ‘ swimming-pool sanctuary studio Sundlaugin in Álafoss, Iceland to complete the venturesome sophomore release Out Of The Angeles.
After a series of concept singles acclaimed by the likes of Rough Trade and Drowned in Sound and following several yearsof international incidence, in 2009 the band crash-landed in Los Angeles to make the sun-drenched tertiary release Road Eyes.

Influential magazine Alternative Press characterised it as ‘a near-perfect album’.
The enigmatic art-rock lifers then took a self-described ’88-month moratorium’ for undisclosed reasons, making a surprise recrudescence in 2017 with the single Our Goal To Realise, the EP All The New Ends and a European tour in 2018, with the promise of a new full-length delivery to follow shortly thereafter.
Now they’re ready to unveil An Archaea, their first new album in over a decade. Drawing from innumerable, often entirely unanticipated musical approaches whilst defying direct description, this new record sounds simultaneously uncanny, utterly unique and yet unmistakably the work of Amusement Parks On Fire.
Recorded entirely at the band’s ‘underground bunker’ rehearsal space studio The Pentagon in Nottingham, England by multi-instrumentalist and de facto tour manager Gavin Poole, finishing touches gave way to previously unimaginable world events that retroactively fed into the radioactive fabric of An Archaea.
Timeless though also all-so timely, the record is inadvertently a reluctant future relic of a strange and confounding stint in spacetime. It’s a work that seeks to highlight this abstraction by subverting our mode of being. It’s a labour of life-and-death that seeks to find freedom and even tentative optimism in catharsis.