The group considers itself to have officially formed in January 2006, when its first lineup came together.[17] Vocalist Ann Yu and drummer/keyboardist David Farrell, who had previously played together in several bands, were preparing to relocate to Los Angeles, California because, according to Yu, "it's a lot easier to find other musicians that are serious about making a career out of [music]" there.[18] The move was abruptly canceled as the band began to form. Bassist and friend Jesse Hayes became available when his punk rock band Time in Malta split up;[17] then, in January, Yu and Farrell met guitarist Ted Parker through a Craigslistclassified advertisement.[12][15] A few weeks later, the band played its first gig in Los Angeles.[18]
The band followed its debut album with the seven-track sophomore effort An Ocean in the Air, which was released on August 28, 2007.[21] The record brought further critical praise from publications such as Spin[11][12] and SF Weekly,[8] and made several best-of-2007 album or single lists, including associate producer Andrew Ross Rowe at MTV News[22] and Muhammad Asranur at Ground Control Mag.[23] The band recorded music videos for three of the album's tracks, "Wish You Dead,"[24] "From a Tower,"[25] and "I Will".[26] The latter, a carnival-themed music video shot on 16 mm film and produced by Thomas Barndt and Samara St. Croix (Tom and Samara), was chosen as an Official Selection of SXSW 2008 Film Festival.[7]
Robert Kissinger replaced original bassist Jesse Hayes in mid-2007.[27][28][29] The group followed up the release of An Ocean in the Air with a self-organized and self-financed national tour.[3] In October 2008, Kissinger and guitarist Ted Parker were replaced by Eric Amerman and Marty Mattern, respectively.
The band released a full-length album Tear Ourselves Away on August 10, 2009 on Heist Or Hit Records (The Answering Machine, Pomegranates) in the UK to some good press Two rough demos, "Signs" and "William", were released in May 2008 on the band's MySpace profile as an indication of "songs we'll be working on for the full length".[30] A single for the song "William" was released on April 6, 2009 in the UK. Following this the tracks Stand In Your Shoes and Boredom were released in the UK. The band have toured twice in the UK playing all over the country. The latest album was promoted on another nationwide tour.[31] The album was released in America in early 2010 [32] and promoted with a full tour.
Ann Yu is in a band called Silver Swans with Jon Waters which released an album called Realize The Ghost in 2010 on San Francisco Independent Label, Tricycle Records.[40]
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^Miehls, Jackie. "LoveLikeFire". Performer Mag. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
^LoveLikeFire (2007-05-19). "Blog: LA Weekly Rock Picks". MySpace.
^LoveLikeFire (2007-11-06). "Blog: Review of our New York show". MySpace.
^LoveLikeFire (2008-05-31). "Blog: New Demos!!!". MySpace.
^"News: Until We Meet Again". LoveLikeFire.com. 2008-06-22. Archived from the original on 2008-07-09. Retrieved 2008-06-27. We'll be at Tiny Telephone Studios for 36 days beginning August 1st with our most awesome producer Bill Racine... When we are done, we'll have our debut full length for you and we'll be hitting the road hard beginning in September.
