Electric Bird Noise - The Silber Sessions

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3...according to our Clinton on Fri 24 Jun, 2011.

This is a grab bag mix of various post rock sounds with bizarre song titles and an even more oddball sleeve. It's a compilation of various tracks the band have released over the last 10 years on singles and compilations. The main man Brian McKenzie plays a variety of instruments and constructs some of his compositions from lifting sounds from like minded people such as Aarktica. Good to hear an album open with a cock and from there on the music ranges from grand post rock in the vein of Her Name is Calla, cinematic Morricone-ish guitar twangs, some of it is your standard cavernous post rock fare but at least two tracks delve into lovely Durutti Column-esque glacial instrumentals and elsewhere we get lovely female vocal loops and Cocteau Twins style bass and drum machine.

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“Electric Bird Noise is minimal, conceptual & experimental so definitely
for a very restricted number of people! Well, I’m sure they will love it!”
~ Side-Line
So after ten years on the fringes of being a Silber band (over a dozen comp
appearances & countless shows with bands on the roster) Electric Bird Noise
has their fifth album released on Silber & we’re very pleased to have them
officially join the family.
Electric Bird Noise has generally been the solo project of Brian Lea McKenzie (Something
About Vampires And Sluts, Dead Cut Tree, Vlor, etc.) & started back in 1997 doing cinematic
guitarscapes while breaking ground in the burgeoning post rock & darkwave scenes of the
era. Electric Bird Noise’s live show with walls of smoke, light, & guitar secured EBN a spot
as one of the south’s premiere post rock party bands.
The Silber Sessions collects various comp appearances & rarities from the past ten years
showing different styles & musical experiments as EBN’s musical focus has shifted over the
years. It also indicates not just McKenzie’s musical prowess, but the fun nature of music
that so many bands in the genres Electric Bird Noise is often lumped into forget. If music
can’t somehow make you smile or put you in a better state of mind, then on a certain level it
ultimately fails. Overly depressing music might be endearing to the young, but eventually we
all grow out of that. Which is one of the real things that makes Electric Bird Noise so
successful, the ability to combine music of a certain darkness & seriousness with a sense of
fun & playfulness. Break out the smoke, break out the lights, break out the guitars, break out
the beers, & break out the balloons; Electric Bird Noise is ready to party!