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After three years of tireless tinkering, Bobby Birdman is back. On New Moods, his most focused and complete musical effort to date, upbeat pop anthems jostle up against shimmering slow a cappella numbers, while New Orleans bounce, dancehall, and hyphy funnel noisily into each self-produced pop number. Sun-drenched guitars and Bobby Birdman's characteristic, unfuckwithable new-school croon wash over drumline weirdness and tyrannical sub bass, like a rogue wave on the Malibu beaches he frequently surfs. New Moods is deconstructed pop-rock, but the melodies are so irresistible that they hook into a timeless, Van Dyke Parks-cum-Perry Como sound that's as at home blasting out of a tape deck on your beach towel as it is in the club. Born Robert Kieswetter, but dubbed "Bobby Birdman" by surf buddy Kyle Field (Little Wings), Kieswetter released several solo albums on Portland, OR-based indie labels before relocating to Los Angeles. No stranger to various LA art, music, and fashion scenes, Kieswetter has plied his talents composing music for visual artist Geoff McFetridge, and modeling for Band of Outsiders' Fall 2008 line (with surfboard in hand, of course). He's even remixed Young MC's "Fastest Rhyme" for last year's Delicious Vinyl anniversary release. Bobby Birdman has toured
with Will Oldham, Hot Chip, Joanna
Newsom, YACHT, Dirty Projectors,
White Rainbow, Little Wings and Lucky
Dragons, and has graced venues as diverse as LA's The Smell
to the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The range of talent that Kieswetter
hides beneath his unassuming fledgling moniker is just beginning to
surge, and New Moods will crest the wave. |
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"Birdman has a smooth-as-butter
voice and an uncanny knack for melody that separate him from the the
experimental pop pack... [New Moods is] his strongest and most
posititve work to date." Past Releases: "One of those rare spine-tingling albums of epic beauty... It all peaks with some astounding, triumphant, "standing on a cliff with the wind blowing back your long Viking hair" moments. Irresistible and essential." -Rob Viola (Tokion) "Experimental
pop crooner Bobby Birdman is like a Frank Sinatra for modern-day surrealists,
belting out gorgeous songs of love and loneliness that are also mysterious
and downright strange." -erasingclouds.com |
"Like a black and white Polaroid of the romantic flirting between the laptop and the traditional songwriting paradigms of rock... Birdman's execution is near flawless." -impactpress.com "There is an off-base sophisto underpinning to the sound, as though Bobby were an ethnomusicologist reconstructing American Noise Pop for some sort of scientific journal. And his effort to do so is very cool." -The Wire "Bobby Birdman has a voice as genuine as they come... If the upcoming LP shows the same range, Kieswetter will steer some well-deserved attention towards the underground sound of the Pacific Northwest." -Filter |
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