Bird Names – Metabolism: A Salute to the Energy of the Sun
Artist: Bird Names
Title: Metabolism: A Salute to the Energy of the Sun
Catalog Number: NS 006
Format: CD, LP, MP3, FLAC
– WHAT IS IT? –
It is an album called Metabolism: A Salute to the Energy of the Sun, made by the group Bird Names. The album was recorded in a basement and an apartment in Chicago in Spring 2010. The songs are an expression and celebration of metabolism, the cord that binds humanity biologically to the cosmos. Metabolism is the group’s fifth full-length record.
– WHAT KIND OF MUSIC IS IT? –
METABOLISM speaks in an abstracted musical language and tumbles forth on internal logic. Recorded in isolation by Bird Names, it is an ornately detailed aural environment, deliberate yet defocused. The record pulses and flows, drifting the listener into hypnosis on thickets of layered melody, densely weaved arrangements of ambient sound, daunting rhythmic turns.
It is a fusion type of garage pop music, with stylistic flavors of kraut, country, the Residents, ’70s Beach Boys. The production style is whimsical and irregular, after the school of Joe Meek. It may remind the listener of Renaldo and the Loaf, Ariel Pink, or Captain Beefhart, though it comes from and goes to a different place than this music.
The vibe is disconcerting, fun, sun-shiney.
– WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS MUSIC? –
The value of Metabolism should be weighed by its usefulness to the listener.
The listener can use this record as weird-times pop. They can bop along to the tunes that get stuck in their heads, and savor the ambiguous emotions the music inspires in them. They can listen while they drive, and think to themself and feel like themself.
The listener can use this record to get lost. The recordings split attention, forcing the mind to unconscious space, to feelings and memories in the shadows of the self. The ear wanders off and returns.
The listener can use this record to accompany and enhance the psychedelic drug experience. METABOLISM is a singular fantasy-land, flowery, rich and warm, that agrees with and stimulates zones of altered consciousness.
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“a colorful blend of art-damaged folk pop that never loses its charm amidst its brash juvenility. It’s jagged and playful, inventive and hook-laden and overall happily odd” - Forest Gospel
“There are few things better than Bird Names’ lowest-fi avant-pop” –flavorpill.com
“The continually clashing sounds and bum notes make one appreciate the care put into Phil Spector’s famous Wall of Sound. This music sounds like that wall crashing down.” –- AllMusicGuide
“undomesticated, raucous, urgent, and alien like the 20s and 30s stuff on Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music” – From a Chicago Reader feature story
