Music Snitch

I was extremely stoked, near giddy, to learn that one of my favorite bands, Birdmonster, is releasing a new EP this month…although it is really like a mini LP since there are eight tracks. The new EP, “Blood Memory”, was produced by Tom Schick (From The Mountain To The Sea) at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco and will be available exclusively online on September 22nd via Fader Label.

Here is what the band had to say about the forthcoming, “Blood Memory” EP:

Choosing songs for an album is a lot like what I imagine picking favorites amongst your children to be. That is to say: not easy. So instead of picking them yourself, you try to let the songs decide…you try to get out of your own way. And if you can do that, you might find the album congealing all on its own, from start to finish, without needing any help from you. And sometimes what takes shape isn’t exactly what you intended, but still something that needs its saying.

These were some of the thoughts ambling through our minds when sifting through the 25 songs that would eventually become the 12 comprising our second album, “From The Mountain To The Sea”. There were a few causalities.

A year later while starting work on a new batch of ideas, we thought we’d revisit those sessions and see if there was anything there…anything that had miraculously congealed, on its own, in our absence. What we found amid the sketches and b-sides was a group of 8 tracks of a different nature altogether. It was something darker, something more perilous, more narrative, more conceptual than any of the material we’d thus far released. We found a world desperate for gunfights, confrontations with The Man On High, journeys through ice by way of the desert; a world where the ancient songs flow off your tongue sure as instinct, like memories your ancestors left flowing in your blood. If its predecessor was a stab at something concise and singular, this was a world of extremities; one where loud guitars eventually give way to desperate banjos, settling to a bed of acoustics and messy piano lines. I was left wondering, Could I have intended this all from the start?

Take a listen to “Yuma”, the first single from Birdmonster’s forthcoming EP:

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Download: Yuma (Right click on link and select “Save Target As” in IE or “Save Link As” in Firefox)

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