Cardboard Wings, the debut album from Birdlips
available now on CD Baby and iTunes.
Birdlips is Cliff Usher (vocals/guitar) and Lindsay Pitts (keyboard/vocals). The duo met in Charlottesville, VA while finishing school at the University of Virginia. Cliff was studying art and Spanish and had just gotten back from a year abroad in Spain and backpacking around Europe. He’d taken his guitar along with him and written a number of songs about his travels. Lindsay was writing her thesis on the changing face of indie rock and the two hit it off at a local pizza joint.
Cliff brought Lindsay into the studio to record electric piano, organ, and backup vocals on a couple of his songs. They ended up co-writing several new tunes. Birdlips and their first LP, Cardboard Wings, were born. Cliff and Lindsay are already working hard on material for their next album, tentatively titled Drift. United by their mutual love of sixties psychedelia and fascination with the hope and vitality of that time period, the new songs are reminiscent of the impassioned folk of that era.
The new full-length album, Cardboard Wings, is about finding oneself in a foreign land. It was recorded at Monkeyclaus Studio in central Virginia in the summer and fall of 2007, engineered by Abel Okugawa, and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side in New York.
Well we're playing a house show at our buddies place this coming Thursday, after that we plan to play around town, so we're pretty stoked about finally playing out. If you ever need someone to play with let us know ; )!
We are inspired by your performance and love your beautiful heavenly sounds. It would be our pleasure to play another show with you - just say the word! Peace and Love, The Wax Standard
This is justin, from batcomputer. thank you. I've listened to Some Kind Of Death at least a thousand times. It's the best song I've heard in a million years!
oh my gosh... im on the second song now and this shit is seriously blowing my mind. this is absolutely incredible. i'm floored. it's some of the best music i've heard in a long time.
I love your music! Thank you for the comment on my page, I don't have any cd so far. But I'm gonna buy yours for sure. Hoping you will come near Toulouse someday!
Thanks so much, Lindsay! I have a recording session tomorrow night. I can't believe the timing. I would postpone it, but I have to get the work done and head up to ny in the morning. I would love to see you guys play again. we have to play a show together soon. You guys would be supergreat in this studio! We gotta make that happen. Thanks again.
Yeah, no problem! My best friend Dacotah (she works at the Good Cherry in Forest) absolutely loves you guys and introduced me to your music. It's gorgeous; I love it <3!
