James Eric

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Nestled in the neighborhood of Old Irving Park in Chicago is the studio of a buried treasure that is slowly becoming unearthed. Underneath headphones and tangled wires, indie rock artist James Eric composes experimental folk pop soundscapes, splicing them with sporadic noise rock, and reinterpreting them for an inventive, yet accessible, melody-driven backdrop. The heart-on-sleeve sincerity is saturated with fierce vocal dynamics, telling simple truths with a single voice and one man's instruments.

February 14th, 2008, welcomes the release that he's been itching to write since the very beginning. Fire In The Mountains is greatly influenced and shaped by the DIYfolk scene that he's now happily become a part of. The instrumentation is stripped down to the bare necessities, but still manages to maintain his trademark qualities as a personal, journal-entry storyteller and indie pop songwriter. The record continues his tradition for capturing catchy hooks, in the ultimate pursuit of combining emotionally stark lyrics with a quiet-to-loud intensity that best befits them. In the spring and summer of 2008, James will bring that sincerity he captures in the studio out into performance spaces throughout the east coast and midwest again, whether it be clubs or living rooms. James' motivation takes his new beginning and turns it into something that can't be met with cynicism or doubt; only acceptance and unrelenting passion.

"[James Eric] tucks introspective lyrics behind grand washes of shoegazer guitar."
- Greg Kot, The Chicago Tribune