Music For Dead Birds - And Then It Rained For Seven Days...(Rusted Rail)
Another tiny CD from the wonderful label that is Rusted Rail.
It's amazing the amount of genius song writing and structure that is unveiled on the Music For Dead Birds album considering its tiny size-- a mere 3 inches (and no rude comments please.)
The press release informs me that the album was recorded in “various sheds and attics” and the music fits perfectly into these homely environs. Acoustic patterns knit warm, cozy comfort blankets of sound. An auditory trip through a rural acoustic electronic hinterlands. The natural elements intertwine with uplifting processed electronic beats that overall blissfully exudes and creates an air of alt country charm.
You can imagine the band sitting in their sheds and on porches whilst the sun sets over a red sun-tinged farm house. MFDB provide a soundtrack to lazy summer nights sitting joyously, yet pensively staring at the ’Shepherd’s delight.' MDFB have embraced their surroundings and fed them musically into machinery that has harvested some of the most fertile musings I have heard this year.
Each track blossoms and brings with it adroit examples of true craftsmanship. I am actually intrigued as to what the band look like as they seem to occupy a roost that resembles some form of homely musical crop circle. Maybe they are scarecrows who haven’t the heart to frighten the life out of the birds but instead left the fields and recorded what nobody else saw or knew. They were far too genteel to panic nature and instead used man made equipment to process the tones of the countryside through music and wry insight.
If you like the musical rural delights of Hood, Epic45, and Anticon’s acoustic electronica, then MFDB will give a glow that would keep you happy and warm in any period of seasonal hibernation. At times quirky and at others deadly serious, MFDB musically take flight where few others dare or are even capable of venturing and whilst you can hear tiny snippets of influence, MFDB are the true sounds, sights and delicate smells of the countryside in summer.
Reviewed by Nicky