Today, Los Angeles group Nitefire — who’ve built a local cult following on raucous house shows and a blisteringly, lightly sardonic, fizzy pop sensibility — share Ameripop!, their new EP out on Concord Records. They also share a video for “Love Won’t Tear Me Away,” today’s focus track and the band’s most mach-speed track to date. They are also hitting the West Coast with Bay Faction in November, dates below. Watch “Love Won’t Tear Me Away” and listen to Ameripop! here.

“Love Won’t Tear Me Away” rips through any pretense, any uncertainty, any shadow of doubt; it’s unfiltered and so comically confident. Sparse where it needs to be and opening up in to a wall of wild guitars and tossed around vocals, “Love Won’t Tear Me Away” has everything necessary to beg for the repeat button.

Of the single, cheeky as ever, the band says, “’Love Won’t Tear Me Away’ is a song by Nitefire about teenagers doing crazy stuff all the time. It’s also about making music and acting like British guys.” 

Of the EP, Nirefire share, “Ameripop! is the third EP from Nitefire. Its lyrical groundwork was threaded from the tribulations of love in Los Angeles. Love for place, love for others, love for self, love for passions. It is an American expression of your dying 20s in a city so divine.” 

Watch “Love Won’t Tear Me Away” here.

As you listen to Ameripop!, a rush of touch-points flash into your head — the snarky scene-surveying of Blur’s “Popscene,” the collagist percussion of peak Dust Brothers, the sugary post-punk of Elastica’s self-titled, the manic glee of Supergrass circa I Should Coco, the studied but tossed-off songcraft of Fountains Of Wayne. As previewed on their first releases of 2024 –– “LA’s Got Gorgeous,” produced by Aron Kobayashi Ritch (Momma, Been Stellar), the sardonic “I’m In Love With Myself,” and “Saturday,” a track that delivers on promise of the new EP’s portmanteau of a title with a baggy revival drum break — Nitefire have locked in on a refreshingly melodic approach to modern rock music that eschews sprechgesang and “state of the modern world” doom-saying altogether.

Led by Nico Geyer and Luke White, Nitefire’s story blossomed when they moved into Marilyn Manson’s infamous former house in the Hollywood Hills during the pandemic, honing their sound in the storied home’s strange atmosphere. With friends living next door, they had a perfect set up for embracing a truly DIY mentality: “It’s a lot easier to get people to go to a party.” Their blowouts between the two houses spilled into the streets and were more often than not shut down. With that, they had their proof of concept.

With wonderful energy to lure them in and sticky, fun-loving rock music to keep ’em around, the band’s won opening slots for Wallice, enumclaw, and milk., hitting iconic venues like The Troubadour and Bowery Ballroom. In addition to SXSW and Southside Spillover festival, the band rounded out 2023 with their own US headline tour.

Following the success of their 2023 EP The Great, Unwashed, this year is set up with greater things still for Nitefire, to be announced later this fall.