Boy Sets Fire signs to Equal Vision/Burning Heart, re-releases planned, demos available

Though it was hardly a secret over the past few weeks, Boy Sets Fire has officially signed to Equal Vision for the US and Burning Heart in Europe according to the band's new website. However, it should be noted that neither label has the band listed yet.

The band recently entered the studio to begin working on The Misery Index; Notes from the Plague Years which is the follow up to Tomorrow Come Today, their sole full length release for Wind Up. But plans are also underway to reissue the band's Initial debut The Day the Sun Went Out as well as a EP compilation titled Before the Eulogy which will include material from Consider and In Chrysalis.

Also included on the new website is a new (and detailed) biography where the band explains the disconnect with Wind Up:

"We don't hear a single." Was the common refrain we heard from label and management. "We don't care." (that was our reply). None of us listen to the radio, or if we do, we don't like it. Boysetsfire will never sound like watered down nirvana or stop singing what we sing about. "Ya gotta go easy on the president." We heard that more than once.

Not that I blame Wind-up. They were great to us. They just didn't really know or understand who we were. The idea of a co-writer was broached. Do we look or sound like Ashlee Simpson? [...] We asked to be released, and they, being very gracious and in their hearts, kind, let us go our separate ways.

The band has posted some of the products of their recording sessions and you can find two demos here: "Phone Call 4am" and "The Plague."