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Band Of The Day #26 - SHADY BARD "Long Term Solutions to the Seagull Problem"

Gentle gifts from the musical gods are to be loved and treasured, and Birmingham’s shady bard fit in said gift box. Their compelling version of pseudo-orchestral slow-motion indie is as much an anomalous product of their home city’s grey, undistinguishable skyline as you could imagine. Perhaps it takes something as ugly as a desolate Midlands freeway to inspire something as frailly sweet as shady bard.
 
Following on from their debut From The Ground Up, the quintet have returned to woo further hearts and minds. ‘Long Term Solutions To The Seagull Problem’ is one of those little gems that might be overlooked by the unkeen eye. Languorous and luxurious, it’s propelled along in a manner akin to a paper boat being blown across a lake. Over barely-there synths and single note guitar slices, band leader Lawrence croons mesmerically, akin to an English folk-enthused Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. The moment where cocoon-like, lush strings and sighing vocals break out is quite the loveliness indeed.

Download: shady bard - 'Long Term Solutions to the Seagull Problem'

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- Gareth Dobson

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Tomorrow (8 Apr), London: come sway so-slow to the soothing sounds of Shady Bard, and more, at a neat lil’ show at the capital’s Bardens Boudoir venue.

The Birmingham indie-folksters (check out our 9/10 review of their From The Ground Up LP here) feature on a bill of four pieced together with a little assistance from us DiS types (who will be down to lend DJ support on the night); doors open at 8pm and tickets are six of your English pounds on the door.

Enviably brilliant support comes from London alt-(post)-rockers Prego, Kent’s grunge-gone-pop sorts It Hugs Back, and superb singer-songwriter gent from up north Paul Marshall.

- Mike Diver

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