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The City at Night

by The Firebird Band

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Dangerous 05:19
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Next Wave 03:40
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Los Angeles 06:16
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Wake Up 03:26
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Fire 05:39
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Can't Stop 05:25
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Art 04:24
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Tokyo 03:04
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Gift 06:45
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Control 07:05
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Unlimited 08:21

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"True to its title and cover art (on which I can see the building in which I work), City at Night is a slick, urban album that feeds off the energy of streetlights, neon signs, and cool, brisk air. It's hard to listen to half of these songs without picturing Mitsubishis speeding through downtown tunnels in silver-green monochrome, their cabins packed with well-proportioned young urban professionals going God knows where...maybe nowhere. Mechanical beats with live accompaniment do most of the heavy lifting as the band piles on synths, guitars, basses, keyboards, and vocals, occasionally hinting at punk but never quite detouring all the way. The seagull synths that announce opener "Obsessive Compulsive" set the album's midnight clubland mood. That song is one of the best here, a propulsive piece of post-disco that finds Broach in fine vocal form, somewhere between The Faint's Todd Baechle and The Fire Show's M. Resplendent." Pitchfork Media, Nov. 8, 2004 (pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3064-city-at-night/)

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released October 10, 2004

The Firebird Band is Chris Broach and John Isberg
Chris Broach: Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drum Machines, Synth, Programming, Live Drums, Piano, Rhodes
John Isberg: Backing Vocals, Bass, Drum Machines, Synth, Rhodes, Guitar

Music by Chris Broach and John Isberg except "Art" by Chris Broach
Lyrics by Chris Broach

Additional vocals on "Can't Stop" & "Dangerous" by Susan Broach (aka Elizabeth Black).
Live Drums performed by Rob Kellenberger, except for "Wake Up".
Live Drums on "Wake Up" performed by Chris Common.

Recorded by Chris Broach in a cabin in Stoughton, WI. 2002.
Additional recording and editing by Chris Broach in a home in Deerfield, IL. 2002-2004.
Live Drums, some vocals, guitars, bass, and some other things recorded with Wendy Schneider at Coney Island Studios in Madison, WI. 2002-2003.
Mixed by Chris Common in Nashville, TN. 2004.
Originally released in 2004

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The Firebird Band Chicago, Illinois

Chris Broach and friends make music with organic and electronic elements. A mix of Indie, Electronic, Emo, & Rock. x-Braid, members of L'Spaerow, SNST.

Important contributors and past members include John Isberg, Andrew Hawthorne, Steve Znavor, Chris Camden, Rob Kellenberger, Erik Bocek, Todd Finkel, Chris Wilson, Riley Broach, Aaron Barr, Roy Ewing...
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