Tracklist
1. The Thief
2. Captive
3. New Loneliness
4. One Match
5. Careless
6. Washington
7. Late Bloomer
8. The City
9. Silverado
10. The Marble in Your Eye
11. It Will Sail
2. Captive
3. New Loneliness
4. One Match
5. Careless
6. Washington
7. Late Bloomer
8. The City
9. Silverado
10. The Marble in Your Eye
11. It Will Sail
Oh Little Fire
The first sound you'll hear on Oh Little Fire is a high-pitched keening, like the shrieking of an unattended phone, or the distant skirling of a ghost on a winter night.
Suddenly, Sarah Harmer's band kicks in, with drums propelling a gust of rock more forceful than anything she's played since her mid-'90s days in Canadian college rock band Weeping Tile. She sings with a sense of purpose: "A new wind will blow through everything/Through everything I know."
On Oh Little Fire, her first album in four years, Harmer sounds reinvigorated and positively charged. In the years after touring her last studio release, the Polaris Prize-nominated I'm a Mountain, she set music aside to focus on political and environmental campaigns, helping to shepherd PERL (Protecting Escarpment Rural Land), the organization she co-founded. Only on occasion did she venture into the studio, lending backup vocals to artists such as Neko Case and Great Lake Swimmers. Her own music and lyrics were waiting for the
Suddenly, Sarah Harmer's band kicks in, with drums propelling a gust of rock more forceful than anything she's played since her mid-'90s days in Canadian college rock band Weeping Tile. She sings with a sense of purpose: "A new wind will blow through everything/Through everything I know."
On Oh Little Fire, her first album in four years, Harmer sounds reinvigorated and positively charged. In the years after touring her last studio release, the Polaris Prize-nominated I'm a Mountain, she set music aside to focus on political and environmental campaigns, helping to shepherd PERL (Protecting Escarpment Rural Land), the organization she co-founded. Only on occasion did she venture into the studio, lending backup vocals to artists such as Neko Case and Great Lake Swimmers. Her own music and lyrics were waiting for the
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