• Listen at: www.myspace.com/girlonfiremusic
• Available on: Amazon MP3, eMusic, Snocap via Myspace

Girl On Fire is a five piece band out of Seattle - a wonderfully dreary town where it really does rain as much as they say. The look and sound of the bands coming out of the Pacific Northwest have changed since the death of the grunge movement, but the tone hasn’t. You don’t really expect sunshine pop from a town where it rains almost every day, and you certainly don’t get it.

Girl On Fire plays wonderfully theatrical screamy rock. Their sound is similar to Chiodos or Pierce The Veil, but Girl On Fire is a little less polished and a little more accessible than either. The screaming is balanced with enough melody to make the songs catchy, and while the pace is a bit too frenetic on most numbers for true sing-along choruses, the energy gives the album enough momentum to prevent it from sliding into a caricature of the horror-rock genre. The vocals are earnest and what they lack in pure ability is more than made up for in intensity. For the most part, Nowhere and Everywhere relies on loud, relentless guitars to carry the sound and keep the album moving.

Standout tracks are “This Was All Your Fault,” “This Last Dance” and “Through The Ivy Lies A Broken Promise.”