Amuse listeners by weaving intriguing ambient landscapes with soulful lyrics to create an easy listening space for indie aficionados and shoegazer cronies.
Uses instruments associated with rock (electric guitars, keyboards, and heavy drums) to create a sound that owes more to free jazz pioneers than Black Sabbath.
Fireworks Go Up! is led by guitarist/vocalist Dan Coutant (ex-Joshua), one of the more articulate/intelligent jagged-pop writers to come along recently.
The tunes, recording, thematic concerns, beats, and melodies are all right on, unless you don’t like the Stones’ “Get Off My Cloud.” Or The Von Bondies.