BiRd-BrAiNs

tUnE-yArDs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 17, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: 4ad Records
• ASIN: B002M3GPUC
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,123 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. For You

2. Sunlight

3. Lions

4. Hatari

5. News

6. Jamaican

7. Jumping Jack

8. Little Tiger

9. Safety

10. Fiya

11. Synonynonym

12. Want Me To Bonus Track

13. Real Live Flesh Bonus Track

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshingly alive, passionate, innovative, December 23, 2009

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Matthew D. Jasper "byzantine logothete" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BiRd-BrAiNs (Audio CD)

She's amazing in concert and on disc. The songs are innovative and passionate wonders of uke & vocal loop wonder--though she exists nicely outside of loops as well. I think of bands such as Cornershop & Pram and even Stereolab--though she's her own very much different thing. There seem to be African influences as well. The playful brilliance on display here floor me. Songs of unrequited love and palpable longing and lions! Her voice creates moods that endure long after the music has stopped. There's a sort of maternal warmth here as well as she mixes in loops of children screaming or offering their opinions on the freshness of blueberries.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a stocking stuffer; wits be warned, December 23, 2009

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M. SMITH "tiny" (Music Heaven) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BiRd-BrAiNs (Audio CD)

Though not a stocking stuffer, and like MIA from 2005, you won't hear anything like this in 2009. I wonder what a wealth of production will do her? There are Captain Beefheart moments as she often chooses to abandon melody for the muse, or a beat summoned from under a pillow. Other moments sound like an unearthed Harry Smith 45. It might test your limits, and you won't choose it for the dance floor, but open your mind and your intellect will follow. It'll last longer than most holiday gifts.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this album!, February 1, 2010

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Becky D (Marysville, PA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: BiRd-BrAiNs (Audio CD)

This is one of the most interesting albums I've heard in a long time. The songs are a wonderful mix of African and Latin influenced jazzy/rock often with undertones of slinky Portishead-sounding beats. And the lyrics are sometimes haunting, sometimes funny, and mostly very catchy. Overall, I love how this album takes from different forms of music to form something very new and very creative.