Reviews:

"The Brooklyn-based collective Flaming Fire is more like an evangelical church congregation than like a conventional rock group, with its leader, Patrick Hambrecht, in the role of preacher and the other members (including his wife, Kate) as his loyal followers. The group's songs pair deceptively simple Residents-like riffs and occasional bursts of noise with fearsome, Biblical-sounding group chants and call-and-response singing. Most refreshing are Hambrecht's seriousness and fervor. (The band's sense of irony is limited to the darker variety--'Kill the Right People,' one refrain goes.)" -The New Yorker

"Well, at least some of the kooks have stuck it out in New York City and they are in Flaming Fire, an awesomely kooky, theatrical band singing songs of biblical plagues and Egyptian sexual practices. Picture the Butthole Surfers, the Residents, the Manson Family, and the B-52s all running amok in a Kenneth Anger film." -Meg Sneed, Vice

"The apocalyptic freak-rock combo Flaming Fire exudes a cultlike aura, with lead singer Patrick Hambrecht howling in a spot-on Charlie Manson imitation, the entire band garbed in blood red, and 20 or so toga-sporting minions in front of the band standing stock-still (when they aren't banging on pots and pans). Brilliant." - Bruce Tantum, Time Out New York

"Can't accuse Flaming Fire of having a dull stage show--they've got the costumes, the bombast, the eye-grabbing frontpeople, the general sense of performance spectacle. They've also got the songs: unnerving, arty, freaky anthems about mortality, divinity, and leopard ninja people with plastic wings, sort of the avant-garde 'Bat out of Hell.'" -Douglas Wolk, Village Voice

"Excellent New York-area weirdness...Flaming Fire delivers bent cabaret chaos." -Thurston Moore and Byron Coley, Arthur magazine

"Flaming Fire is a higgledy-piggledy mash-up of electronica, banjos, and 1980s pop. Art school never sounded so good." -Boston Globe

"One thing that sets Brooklyn's Flaming Fire apart from similarly theatrical live acts is that its records actually bear repeated listening and reveal something new every time--unlike, say, Fischerspooner, whose albums are about as much fun as watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show at home by yourself. Its second album, Songs From the Shining Temple (Perhaps Transparent Recordings), creates a feel of high-tech, happy heathenism in even the dourest apartment: the beat and chant and joyous, playful violence has a sincere quality of myth. " -Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader

"Flaming Fire bills itself as an Expressionist, Greco-Roman, Fellini-esque performance outfit, but all those adjectives are vain attempts to categorize the uncategorizable. The songs on the group's 'Get Old and Die' randomly mix pop camp, goth over-earnestness, folk tunefulness, electro noise, choral chanting, and some old-fashioned hollering into a chaotic stew. Singer Lauren Weinstein is also a comic artist—check out her work in the book 'Inside Vineyland'—so don't be surprised if the theatrical live show comes with some visuals, too." -The Onion