Amusement Parks On Fire emanated in around 2004 with the circulation of an eponymous debut album, conceived and consummated by the then-adolescent founder Michael Feerick and phonically actualised on a shoestring. Issued on Geoff Barrow [Portishead]’s Invada label, it was described by the New Musical Express as 'hedonistic teenage genius'.
A live line-up was essentially preformed and extensively performed with the likes of Dinosaur Jr, M83 and dEUS among innumerable other acts of the era. The unit then retreated to Sigur Rós’ private swimming-pool sanctuary Sundlaugin in Álafoss, Iceland to complete the venturesome sophomore release ‘Out Of The Angeles’.
After several years of international incidence the band crash-landed in Los Angeles in 2009 to make ‘Road Eyes’, with Alternative Press subsequently characterising it as ‘sun-drenched, challenging and gratifying… a near-perfect album’. The highly anticipated new album ‘An Archaea’, their first in over a decade, is obtainable now.
