Bird Names
"surprisingly mainstream"
Location: Chicago, IL
Website: http://www.myspace.com/birdnames
Bio: The Bird Names have seen the star of heavy medley, guising about their chicago home and afield, too, for a few fair years. Once they ... (more)
wrong-rocked: clefting audiences with irresponsible volume and noises, but lately lessly, invoking such energies to ramp up the slant of their pop, and not at barely at all rocking wrong. Coming lately charmful the players are: Albert Schatz, Colin Hartz, Dave Lineal, Nora Brank and Phelan Lavelle.
Unsound Records is proud as a warrior's village to be affiliated with these creative elemental creatures. This energetic Chicago-based outfit has all the guts needed to make sweetest gravy. The newest transplant to our dirt, we will be watering them and trying to make sure they get much light throughout the oncoming passage of time.
The Chicago Reader says they sounds like they might've been recorded "in a men's stall at the United Center" and the Illinois Entertainer offers that it "literally consists of patience-trying noises across lo-fi offerings." Uh-huh. The more recent "Traceland Recordings" and "On Opaque Things" strike for this bar: Time Out Chicago called the latter one of the most charming local releases of the year. Huh.
A broad range of instrumentation collides stupendously on "Wooden Lake / Sexual Diner," due out right here in May.
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