Bird Names - Sings The Browns

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5...according to our Business Lady on Thu 18 Feb, 2010.

Hardly a week seems to pass without the release of an excellent new record from Upset the Rhythm records. Birdnames are new to me but on first listen I like what i'm hearing. 'Sings the browns' is full of strange and wondrous melodic ditties that embrace elements of country music, folk traditional's and old pop music like the kind that used to get passed down the generations word of mouth but all fucked up and confused on a heavy dose of acid. Arrangements are purposefully sporadic and off-kilter and the recording process is as deliberately ametuer giving the record both an authentic yet modern sound. Birdnames share alot in common with Woods and other groups who are favoring the psychedelic approach to folk and country music but this is alot stranger like if The Residents shed thier punk rock roots and started making hippy rock. I really like this sort of thing at the moment so it gets my thumbs up. Research tells me that these folks have been together a while and have records out on both Unsound and Lamb City, just incase you are interested. Ace band, check them out.

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* Fifth album from this psyche-pop troupe following two previous releases on Unsound and an album released on Dan Deacons label, Lamb City. The band have also just finished a massive US tour with Dead Ocean.

* Alone to themselves, Bird Names has been singing a strange sweet song for four years. The song tells about the horror and wonder of truth in an acid-scrambled brogue pieced together from old pop and country music. In their singing they celebrate the honesty of the grotesque, the spirituality of ambiguity, the joy of singing.

* The band produced the album themselves (as they have most Bird Names albums), engaging their 1/2" tape studio with the amateur’s imagination, inspiration and crudity. Sings the Browns is folk in its frankness, privacy, melancholy; psychedelic in its conjuring the displacement of drug experience; pop in its melody, stickiness, demand of obsessive listening.

* Tracklisting: 1. Nature’s Over 2. Live Longer Than We Want To 3. Defined Stijls 4. Scandanaivia 5. Natural Weeds 6. Oh, Narcotopic Fantasy 7. I Had A Girl 8. Days Elevated 9. People Should Get More Aware 10. Production 11. She Works In A Store 12. Garbage Barge 13. Taxicabs And Bicycles

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