Fires’ J. Douglas Bartholomew on their upcoming split

cover-sdf-fires-split-frontTroubled Monkey Records is soon to release a split between Baltimore’s Fires and Self Defense Family (formerly End of a Year), which is a perfect pairing of progressive post-hardcore bands. It’s due out next weekend, and features some truly wonderful packaging to contain the explosive music within. Fires’ J. Douglas Bartholomew was cool enough to take a few minutes to communicate with us via e-mail about the release.

This is officially out the weekend of the Fest, correct? Why release it then, if neither band’s playing?

It is “coming out” Fest weekend mainly because the covers are being delivered to Patrick [Compston] (the guy putting out the record) at registration. And since I will be down there and Sean Mahan (the artist) will have a table there, we figured let’s take advantage of the geographical fate.
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