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By the Fire is the sixth solo album by Thurston Moore.[2]

By the Fire
Studio album by Thurston Moore
Released	September 25, 2020 (2020-09-25)[1]
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	Daydream Library Series
Thurston Moore chronology
Rock n Roll Consciousness (2017) By the Fire (2020) Screen Time (2021)

Moore claimed the album and its release were a political act saying "I put out By the Fire as a political move. Any time you put out a record, a book, a fanzine, a blog, a cassette, a CD, whatever you're doing, that's a political move. You're actually engaging in a social world. I called it By the Fire because of that. [It's] the idea of people sitting around a fire and dialoguing."[3]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Exclaim!	5/10[2]
NME	[1]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[4]

Ron Hart of Spin called the album "his most direct solo outing since his 1995 debut, Psychic Hearts."[3] Stuart Berman of Pitchfork praised the album and said of the almost 90 minutes length of the album "it's a record that justifies and even demands the extra space to explore."[4]

Daniel Sylvester of Exclaim! was less effusive calling the album "boring and tedious" and said of it "much of the material sounds like Sonic Youth, even if the quality isn't there."[2]

Track listing

Personnel

• Thurston Moore – vocals, guitars
• James Sedwards – guitars[4]
• Debbie Googe – bass guitars[4]
• Steve Shelley – drums[1]

References

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