How to Start a Fire is the second album by the Pompano Beach, Florida

Pompano Beach, Florida

Pompano Beach ) is a city in Broward County, Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean just to the north of Fort Lauderdale. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 99,845...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band Further Seems Forever

Further Seems Forever

Further Seems Forever is an American rock band formed in 1998 in Pompano Beach, Florida and disbanded in 2006. Over the course of their career the band experienced several lineup changes, resulting in a different lead vocalist performing on each of their three studio albums...

, released in 2003 by Tooth & Nail Records

Tooth & Nail Records

Tooth & Nail Records is a record label founded by Brandon Ebel in the U.S. state of California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington, where it is situated today...

. It was the band's only album with vocalist Jason Gleason, who had replaced original singer Chris Carrabba

Chris Carrabba

Christopher Ender Carrabba is the lead singer and guitarist of the band Dashboard Confessional, and is the vocalist for the American emo/indie rock band Further Seems Forever.-Biography:...

 when the latter left the band to focus on his new project Dashboard Confessional

Dashboard Confessional

Dashboard Confessional is an American rock band from Boca Raton, Florida, led by singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba. The name of the band is derived from the song "The Sharp Hint of New Tears" from the debut album The Swiss Army Romance....

. Gleason would leave the band the following year due to interpersonal tensions and be replaced by former Sense Field

Sense Field

Sense Field was an American indie rock band from California, formed in 1991 out of the ashes of hardcore punk band, Reason to Believe.Sense Field has been largely credited with bringing their sound from emo circles to a more mainstream audience alongside contemporaries like Sunny Day Real Estate,...

 singer Jon Bunch. How to Start a Fire was also the band's first album with guitarist

Guitarist

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 Derick Cordoba, replacing original guitarist Nick Dominguez.

Track listing

All songs written by Further Seems Forever

1. "How to Start a Fire" – 2:51
2. "The Sound" – 3:41
3. "A Blank Page Empire" – 4:09
4. "Against My Better Judgement" – 3:41
5. "I Am" – 3:24
6. "Pride War" – 3:04
7. "On Legendary" – 3:40
8. "Insincerity as an Artform" – 3:44
9. "The Deep" – 3:46
10. "Aurora Borealis (In Long Form)" – 4:50

Performers

• Jason Gleason - vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Josh Colbert - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Derick Cordoba - guitar
• Chad Neptune - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Steve Kleisath
  Steve Kleisath
  Steve Kleisath is an American musician. has been a drummer for PULL, Strongarm, Shai Hulud, Further Seems Forever, and En Masse.He is a professional poker player. and also the #5 Ms...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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• James Wisner - keys
  Keyboard instrument
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  , additional guitar

Album information

• Record label: Tooth & Nail Records
  Tooth & Nail Records
  Tooth & Nail Records is a record label founded by Brandon Ebel in the U.S. state of California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington, where it is situated today...
  
  
• Record label (vinyl version): Broken Circles Records
• All songs written by Further Seems Forever.
• Recorded, engineered, and mixed by James Paul Wisner at Wisner Productions.
• Produced by James Paul Wisner and Further Seems Forever.
• Executive producers: Brandon Ebel and Bill Power.
• Mastered by Alan Douches at West Side Mastering.
• Illustrations by David Rankin.
• Band photography by Alan Ferguson.
• Art direction by Further Seems Forever.
• Design by Kris McCaddon and Further Seems Forever.