page_title: Fairmont (band)
section_title: Mint 400 Records
hierarchical_section_title: Fairmont (band) / About / Mint 400 Records
caption_attribution_description: English: Band shot of Fairmont from Rent Party in South Orange, New Jersey.
context_page_description: Fairmont is an American indie rock band from New Jersey, fronted by Neil Sabatino. They have released ten full-length albums, as well as six EPs, and toured across the United States for over a decade of their existence.
context_section_description: Keyboardist Christian Kisala joined the group in 2008. After writing songs with a female counterpart in mind, Sabatino contacted friend Teeter Sperber, as well singer of The Narrative Suzie Zeldin. Both would appear on the 2008 release Transcendence, which was produced by Bryan Russell. The album appears at No. 52 in Gary Wien's book Are You Listening?, a comprehensive list of the top 100 albums of a decade, which was compiled from a six-month review of over 2,220 releases. It was followed by a national tour supporting Life of Agony frontman Keith Caputo, starting in August 2008. The six-track EP The Meadow at Dusk was released on 12"-vinyl in 2009, and debuted on CMJ charts at No. 176.
  In 2010, Fairmont released their sixth album Destruction Creation, and the following year Mint 400 Records compiled a retrospective collection of Fairmont's first decade of releases. The Grand and Grandiose was released in 2013, followed by a live acoustic EP in 2014. For their 2015 album 8½, Christian Kisala moved from Malletkat to Xylarimba and Vibraphone. Fairmont performed at the 2016 North Jersey Indie Rock Festival. As they finished work on 2017's A Spring Widow, Kisala switched solely to Vibraphone, and the band also saw the addition of Matt Cheplic, a current member of the Bitter Chills and bassist Mike Burns who formerly played with Sabatino in the punk band Little Green Men in the 1990s. Their tenth studio album We Will Burn That Bridge When We Get To It was released in 2018, and features Lisa Grabinski on keyboards and vocals. Kisala moved to drums, while longtime drummer Andy Applegate went on medical leave. In January 2019, We Will Burn That Bridge When We Get To It debuted on the NACC radio charts at No. 143, and climbed to No. 126 in its third week; Fairmont's second release to chart on college radio charts.
caption: Fairmont in 2013; from left to right: Christian Kisala, Neil Sabatino and Sam Carradori.
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