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Music Worth Leaving The House For (2007)
Independent Weekly, Chapel Hill
-"There's a rich swirl of New South mystique hidden in Greensboro's Filthybird, especially through frontwoman Renee Mendoza. Her songwriting—a collagist's reflection on the toils of love and life—proclaims a naiveté rung through resilience and tenacity. "I was born a bird/ A bird I will die," she sings on the perfect, "The Gospel as Judas Told it to Me," her rangy, romantic voice carrying that charge above a band capable of the same lull and lift. Filthybird moans in textural splendor until they climb into big, clanging rock crescendos, free and emphatic and strong. The band's debut, Southern Skies, is one of the best 10 records you'll hear from this state all year, guaranteed."
—Grayson Currin
Indie Concert Guide
Independent Weekly, Chapel Hill
-"Led by one of the most alluring voices in indie rock, Greensboro's Filthybird landed a winner with their Southern Skies debut earlier this year. At Filthybird's core is the staid, neat songcraft of Renee Mendoza, but the band bends it into fiery, rangy textures."
-Grayson Currin
"Listen to what the band offers, and try not to love this music. It is warm and resonant and will drip inside you long after the speakers have gone quiet. Once you've been dazzled, come see them play, somewhere, anywhere."
-Patrick Egan (Go Triad)
"Filthybird are from Greensboro, and the one song I've heard is weird and modulated & ethereal, like Joni Mitchell in her Jaco Pastorius period, dropping acid with Jaco and then kinda free-associating into the mic. Or rather, like that if the end-result wound up genius, which seems unlikely, but in this case true."
-Triangle Rock
hey there filthybird ~ we miss you & hope to cross paths again one of these lonesome days.
wanted to share our video, it won our director Most Promising New England Filmmaker @ The Boston Underground Film Festival:
YES WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER SHOW @ THE RECORD STORE!!! WED. MAY 20TH
Tonight we have...
AMERICANS IN FRANCE (Chapel Hill, NC)
FASTER DETAIL
Americans In France practice down a long dirt road, near a pond in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The original three piece has been playing
shows and writing music together for three and four years, respectively.
Their songs are compared to an absurd amount of rock-and-roll genres including: punk, psychedelic, indie, art, garage and prog.
The band's contemporary influences include: Lil' Wayne, Whatever
Brains, Eddie Current Suppression Ring, DC Snipers, The Spiderbags,
Blank Dogs, The Limes, Pinche Gringo and Blood on the Wall.
They have recorded one LP, "Pretzelvania" with mysterious engineer
Brian Paulson. It is due out May 15th, 2009 on the Chapel Hill label
Odessa Records.
