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Premiere: The Backfires Shares New Single “Turn Off The Lights”

Debut Album This Is Not An Exit is Due Out on January 24th

Nov 21, 2024

Early next year, New York-based indie rock outfit The Backfires are set to share their debut album, This Is Not An Exit, arriving on January 24th. The band have spent the last few years shuttling back and forth across the Atlantic, with members based in both London and New York. In that time, they developed a similarly transatlantic take on indie rock, pulling from the aloof swagger of The Strokes and the sleek aesthetics of British indie bands like Catfish and the Bottlemen or Courteeners. More

Mar 23, 2021

Transatlantic indie rock band The Backfires, formerly known as Qualia Noir, debuted in February with the tight nocturnal indie rock of their EP, Consider The Backfires. With members in both NYC and the UK, the band is equally inspired by 2000s New York indie like The Strokes as by British touchstones like Arctic Monkeys or Oasis. More