:: RELEASE OVERVIEW ::
Helmed by producer David Nichols (Time To Fly, tex.) starting in March 2005, Some By Sea sporadically pieced their recordings together around the various members' schedules in Tacoma over the course of three months, completing a total of 17 songs. Five were allotted for the band's self-released EP The Saddest Christmas and the remaining dozen for their SideCho debut and sophomore album, on fire! (igloo). The 70-minute, 12-song on fire! (igloo) found the band "taking the sound that we had before and just improving upon it," becoming more epic with certain tracks, infusing a variety of styles and genres, yet all the while maintaining their overall sense of direction. "I'm very confident that we pulled it off," Du Bray says. "The biggest goal to everyone, I think, is to make a record that if we weren't in the group, we'd actually want to sit down and listen to over and over again. It's a group of five complete music nerds and we're our own biggest critics." As for these five critics' seemingly odd choice in album title selection, Du Bray offers a rather logical response that's reflective of the band's forward-thinking idealism. "If you get fire around an igloo, it'll melt instantly. It's a tenuous thing and with the least amount of effort can just be destroyed. And I think that going into this recording and hearing the reviews that were putting us into these classifications, we felt like an igloo that was about to catch on fire. It's just one of those images that felt kind of perfect, something that hopefully can never happen and a direction that we don't want to go. We don't want to be the igloo that burns to the ground!"
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