Fairmont
Fairmont
Clifton, NJ
Rock / Indie / Alternative
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“Our dream is to make record after record and if one kid out there can relate to our tales of bitterness then our job is done.” – Neil Sabatino
Since forming in 2001, New Jersey band Fairmont (vocalist/guitarist Neil Sabatino, drummer Andy Applegate and bassist John “Hambone” Mcguire) has already recorded 3 full-length records with a fourth on the way, four EPs and toured the midwest and northeast extensively. During that time the band has won over fans across the country and shared the bill with artists including Nada Surf, Ted Leo and Val Emmich.
Fairmont evolved out of Eyeball Records band Pencey Prep, a group whose label was made famous by fellow New Jersey rockers, Thursday and My Chemical Romance. As Pencey Prep, the band played shows with the Strokes, Thursday and Nada Surf as well as performed to 4,000 people at NJ's Surf & Skate Fest. After disbanding, one of the members of Pencey Prep went on to join Reprise/Warner Bros recording artist My Chemical Romance.
Fairmont's sound is dark pop, combining engaging melodies with biting lyrics reminiscent of groups including Pavement, the Pixies, the Shins and the Replacements.
Originally a solo acoustic project, Fairmont was signed by Reinforcement Records before a full band had even been organized. Once assembled, in 2001 the group released their first full-length CD, Pretending Greatness Is Awaiting, containing a clever combination of half acoustic and half electric tracks. Anomie, Fairmont's second full-length in 2003, was hailed by BlowUpRadio.com as a “masterpiece.” The band's new CD, Hell Is Other People, was released in February, 2005 as a joint effort between Reinforcement and Renfield Records. The album has been receiving raves from the media, with The Aquarian Arts Weekly calling the disc, “A strong, confident, self-assured, commercially accessible effort from an outstanding young band just beginning to hit its creative stride...”
Hell Is Other People is Fairmont's most bold effort to date. With more depth than a traditional pop record, Hell Is Other People is a concept album loosely based on Jean Paul Sartre's play, No Exit. Both the record and the play deal with the cruelty of people toward one another and the inability to escape this basic human trend, even when presented with an opportunity to make things better. The album takes the listener through the narrator's battle between a person he loves (“Your Fan From Far Away”) and a person he hates (“The Monster You've Become”), as well as his own self-loathing and disappointment (“Don't Give Up The Ship”). By album's end, the narrator is still incapable of escaping his own hell, much like the characters in Sartre's play.
At the end of 2005 and into 2006 Fairmont continued work on a 4th full length which in many ways continues with the exploration of hopelessness and deceit among friends. The album titled Wait and Hope a quote from "The Count Of Monte Cristo" refers to our author's quest for revenge upon those who have done him wrong, the mostly autobiographical album has no release date set or label currently but is 90% written and the first three finished tracks appear on a limited edition EP titled The Subtle Art of Making Enemies.
In October of 2006 Fairmont hits the studio with Dean Batulonis (Sick Of It All, Hope Conspiracy, Foreign Islands).
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