NITEFIRE ANNOUNCE AMERIPOP! EP WITH BRASH BAGGY REVIVAL "SATURDAY"
Today, Los Angeles group Nitefire — who've built a local cult following on raucous house shows and a fizzy pop sensibility — announce Ameripop!, their new EP due out Nov 1.
Accompanying the announcement is "Saturday," a track that delivers on promise of the new EP's portmanteau of a title. Atop a baggy revival drum break, singer Nico Geyer lends an LA-accented cheekiness to the anticipatory verve of the track's buzzing guitars and lo-fi keyboard figures.
Of this single, Nitefire says, "Saturday is a sarcastic critique on Hollywood nightlife and microcelebrity culture. It’s about living for the weekend and pining to be in the same rooms as your favorite non-celebrity celebrities so that maybe your own career can be thrust out of obscurity and into the limelight of LA’s most beautiful. It makes fun of the clout-chasing and horn-dogging masses that get caught up in the egotistical mess of it all."
Listen to / watch "Saturday" here, and pre-save Ameripop! here.
As you listen to Ameripop!, a rush of touch-points flash into your head — the snarky scene-surveying of Blur's "Popscene," the collagist percussion of peak Dust Brothers, the sugary post-punk of Elastica's self-titled, the manic glee of Supergrass circa I Should Coco, the studied but tossed-off songcraft of Fountains Of Wayne. As previewed on their first releases of 2024 – “LA’s Got Gorgeous,” produced by Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma, Been Stellar), and the sardonic "I'm In Love With Myself" — Nitefire have locked in on a refreshingly melodic approach to modern rock music that eschews sprechgesang and "state of the modern world" doom-saying altogether.
Led by Nico Geyer and Luke White, Nitefire's story blossomed when they moved into Marilyn Manson’s infamous former house in the Hollywood Hills during the pandemic, honing their sound in the storied home’s strange atmosphere. With friends living next door, they had a perfect set up for embracing a truly DIY mentality: "It’s a lot easier to get people to go to a party.” Their blowouts between the two houses spilled into the streets and were more often than not shut down. With that, they had their proof of concept.
With wonderful energy to lure them in and sticky, fun-loving rock music to keep 'em around, the band's won opening slots for Wallice, enumclaw, and milk., hitting iconic venues like The Troubadour and Bowery Ballroom. In addition to SXSW and Southside Spillover festival, the band rounded out 2023 with their own US headline tour.
Following the success of their 2023 EP The Great, Unwashed, this year is set up with greater things still for Nitefire, to be announced later this fall.