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“Better Days” is a short, fast blast of energy, enthusiasm, and inspiration... an exciting kick-in-the-ass that encourages active participation, balanced with thoughtful contemplation! FIYA is a Gainesville, Florida collection of siblings, housemates, and neighbors who have been touring and recording for several years. “Better Days” is the band’s most focused effort: the songs are fast, melodic punk and the lyrics navigate the ways people try to imagine, articulate, and work towards a more compassionate world. Urgent and uplifting, raw and refreshing!

“I don’t know what they put in the water in Gainesville, but it definitely has a positive effect on their bands. FIYA plays good ol’ Gainesville rock in the same vein as ARMY OF PONCH, TWELVE HOUR TURN, and TRUE NORTH. Go buy this album; it’s great.” -Impact Press

“Fast, urgent, and uplifting punk rock. Musically similar to old DC hardcore, FIYA belts out sporadic and intricate guitar work. They’re the musically harsher cousin of YAPHET KOTTO, mining a rich vein of passionate hardcore, previously attacked with a pickaxe by the likes of BOOKS LIE, TRUE NORTH, and LIGHT THE FUSE AND RUN. Musically this is all about high energy pace, urgently shouted vocals, easy to follow melodies, and stuff you can rock out and dance to. Lyrically, FIYA conjure up a political prowess all their own, evoking themes both universal and personal, all the while maintaining a true Gainesville punk sound.” -The Internet

Joey Brenner - bass
Dru Martin - guitar, vocals
Patrick Quinney - vocals, guitar
Ryan Quinney - drums

Recorded March 2-4, 9-10
by Rob McGregor at Goldentone Studios

1. Smile
2. Guns in the House
3. Lions
4. Tell Your Children
5. Further
6. Little Babies
7. New Dog
8. The Problem
9. Revelry
10. Born to Do