Fireflight

Fireflight has always been a band unafraid to offer heart-on-their-sleeves honesty, extending the same invitation to their listeners. With Who We Are, Fireflight is returning from a five year breather to offer up a powerful and timely identity statement. Who We Are, which will release as two parts (The Head and The Heart), is both a homecoming and... something entirely new for the veteran rock group. For this project, founding guitarist and backing vocalist Justin Cox rejoined bandmates Dawn Michele (vocals), Glenn Drennen (guitar) and Wendy Drennen (bass), restoring the bands founding lineup. Although the bands last album, 2015s Innova, was a venture into independently created electronic music, this time around the band set a course back towards rock and roll teaming with Josiah Prince (Disciple) at the producing helm and a newfound partnership with Rockfest Records. Who We Are was created following years off the road, years where each of the band members had other jobs to provide financially allowing them to return to making music purely for the musics sake. We said lets create another record, this time with our support coming from a label thats independent, a label thats created for artists by artists, singer Dawn Michele recalls. Its a totally different experience being able to create under those circumstances. I think it reignited the spark for us. That reignited spark is exactly what youll hear on album lead single Who We Are, a rousing rock anthem from The Head half of the album that seems custom-fit for current events despite being written a few years ago. The song invites us out of helplessness and into our true identity. As Gods children, we are the people who are supposed to be the ones who are showing love to others, Dawn shares. Were the ones that are here to be a healing power for the broken systems, the things that are built around mans ideas. Dawn continues with an idea that serves as the albums crux in our moment of cultural crisis: I think this is a really interesting opportunity for those of ...Read More