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DEGENERATION ELEGIES

The Library is On Fire has returned with the announcement of a new album, Degeneration Elegies.

Ten years after 2014’s Halcyon & Surrounding areas, The Library is On Fire have returned, releasing the singles Back Pocket and Hotel Jugoslavija featuring Mike Watt (Minutemen, Stooges), and announcing the release of a new album, Degeneration Elegies.

You can listen to Mike Watt interview Steve Five on The Watt From Pedro Show HERE.

The band has been in overdrive behind the scenes for the past year or so, working on Degeneration Elegies, a full-length album of completely new music, as well as playing select shows in Brooklyn after asking new bassist Vedran Mehinovic and keyboardist Chris Johnson to join the band as permanent members.

Upon moving to NYC in 2004, singer/guitarist Steve Five was looking for ideas. While writing songs in his Bushwick apartment & working at the Strand Bookstore, Five took the band’s name, La Bibliothèque Est en Feu, from a poem by antifascist & proto-surrealist war poet René Char, after weekly meetings over coffee with Television guitarist Tom Verlaine, who suggested the name.

The band would go on to release a number of albums, including 2010’s Magic Windows, Magic Nights produced by Guided by Voices producer Todd Tobias, kicking off a long friendship with GBV. Eventually former bassist Mark Shue would join Guided by Voices. The band released a number of now out-of-print albums, as well as 2014’s Halcyon & Surrounding Areas, before day jobs and relocations caused a hiatus.

Upcoming events

If The Library is On Fire is playing, it will be posted here…

Austin, TX, USA

TBD Coming soon

12 Jan 2022

Monterey, CA, USA

x

25 Jan 2022

Atlanta, GA, USA

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14 feb 2022

Austin, TX, USA

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20 feb 2022

Magic Windows, Magic Nights

With Love from The Library is on Fire

The Stone Statue II

01:35

Magic Bumrush Heartz

03:04

Gliding the Lily

02:12

Cinematic Idea

05:10

I Miss you so much, it hurts so bad

01:54

smoke & mirrors

5:35

Other Albums

If your preferred streaming service is down, you can always listen to & download our music directly from our website because we love you

The Library is On Fire, Mike Watt  

Hotel Jugoslavija

The Library is On Fire

Halcyon & Surrounding Areas

The Library is On Fire

Back Pocket

Hand Written Lyrics

$20

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