

Editors’ Notes San Francisco’s Letters from the Fire made a powerful 2016 debut with a fiery brand of dramatic alt-rock that’s not just hard but poignant. “Bruised” builds towering choruses on top of singer Alexa Kabazie’s heavy-hearted vocals and nuanced acoustic guitar, while “Perfect Life” is a blitzkrieg of thundering percussion and dizzying fretwork. The relentless title track comes on like a tidal wave, with bruising, head-banging verses en route to a chorus that burns with a kiss-off message of strength through adversity.
Perfect Life
1
4:12
Mother Misery
2
3:37
Give in to Me
3
3:38
Bruised
4
4:21
Live a Lie
5
3:52
My Angel
6
4:09
Last December
7
3:39
Holy Ghost
8
3:48
At War
9
4:25
Control
10
4:00
Worth the Pain
11
3:47
Scars
12
3:35
One Foot in the Grave
13
3:11