More Fire for Burning People...

Formed around 1994 was the Richmond, Virginia based More Fire for Burning People. After working to solidify a full-time lineup of Brian Landis, Curtis Brown, Becky Sanchez, and Bret Payne the band set forth on recording a four song demo and then quickly followed that up with the “Utah” single. The band also did a split with Blue Baby New Year that was released on Moodswing Records. Not long before the band split in 1997, they put out their one and only full-length on Ruido Records titled Sitting Breathless in New Chairs. A brief tour after the release would prove to be the end of the band as members starting focusing on other projects and/or life outside of being in a band. Regardless, their album is a fairly interesting piece of work that due to their brief existence may have been easily overlooked in the past.

Their sound, while not totally uncommon at the time, was definitely a good one sort of soaking itself in mathy bass-lines while branching out a bit more into drifting pulse like rhythms that ultimately rope the listener into being caught off guard with a hit of distorted guitar noise. Along with the impressive bass work of member Becky Sanchez, you also had some fine drumming thrown in too provided by Bret Payne, keeping things more than interesting. Definitely check the album out if you happened to miss it whenever it originally came out.

More Fire for Burning People – Daddy’s Girl [MP3]
More Fire for Burning People – Frank’s Mill [MP3]

After disbanding Sanchez went on to be in Shiloh Sound along with member Brian Landis. Bret Payne went on to be in Galusha Grow and eventually formed his own record label Cadillac Flambe. Thanks to that, anyone interested in picking up Sitting Breathless in New Chairs or any other material by More Fire for Burning People can be done so at Cadillac Flambe.