Pissing on Bonfires / Kissing with Tongues

Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues is the debut studio album by Scottish indie folk band Meursault, released in 2008 to a generally positive reception from the music press and online community critics.^[4][5] The band initially self-released the album in 2008, before a second run was released on the Edinburgh-based independent label, Song, by Toad Records, in 2009.

Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues
Studio album by Meursault
Released	2008
Recorded	Edinburgh
Genre	Folktronica[1]
Label	Song, by Toad Records
Meursault chronology
Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues (2008) All Creatures Will Make Merry (2010)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Is this music?	(favourable)[1]
The Skinny	[2]
The Scotsman	(favourable)[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Salt (Part One)"	6:23
2.	"Statues Of Strangers"	2:11
3.	"The Furnace"	3:46
4.	"Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues"	3:52
5.	"Salt (Part Two)"	3:18
6.	"The Dirt And The Roots"	3:46
7.	"A Few Kind Words"	3:09
8.	"A Small Stretch Of Land"	4:58
9.	"Ampersand After Ampersand"	1:07
10.	"Lament For A Teenage Millionaire"	3:35
11.	"Oh, Neighbourhood!"	3:15

Personnel

Meursault

• Chris Bryant
• Fraser Calder
• Calum MacLeod
• Neil Pennycook

Cultural references

Neil Pennycook (l) of Meursault and Scott Hutchison (r) of Frightened Rabbit perform at Oxjam, Edinburgh 2009

• Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit has often performed A Small Stretch Of Land; taken from Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues and written by Neil Pennycook, during his live appearances. He also said that inspired Poke and that it was a "perfect" song to him that he'd wish he'd written.
• The BBC selected The Furnace for heavy daytime rotation on Radio 1 as part of their promotion of the corporation's coverage of Glastonbury 2010.
• Scottish arts and culture magazine The Skinny placed Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues sixteenth in its list of the best Scottish albums of the 2000-2010 decade.^[6]