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Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009

by Tyler Gould

The video is mislabeled as “Fire Dance”, which would have been a perfectly appropriate title, but the glitzy song is actually “Fire Night” from Lights’ (from Brooklyn, not Toronto) latest album, Rites.

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