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we are a band in bloomington, indiana. we are three male types. we don't look too good but we try real hard.
someone likes us some:
"LOCATION: bloomington, indiana.
SOUNDS LIKE: the awesomely rad slowcore band that time forgot.
WHY YOU SHOULD BLOG ABOUT THEM: you’d be forgiven for thinking that redbird was a defunct band from the late-90’s that you missed the boat on ten years on. upon listening to their songs, emotive vocals with single guitar notes and heavy chords married to a loosely-stitched-together rhythm section (see: the shuffling drums on “ladyhawke”), they closely resemble the type of upper-crest slowcore band that the genre cast a blind eye on during its heyday in the late-90’s and early-2000’s. redbird is definitely a lo-fi band, but not in the wavves/times new viking sense, where low fidelity is used as a production element, and not in the no age/fresh cherries from yakima sense (shameless plug, sorry), where noise is used as a compositional tool. no, redbird is a lo-fi band that personifies the semi-quiet college town of bloomington; scruffy, low-key, and DIY-by-necessity-and-not-fetishism.
coursing through the songs is the voice of frontman micheal bushman, who shivers and wails like the midwestern equivalent of will sheff, evoking the okkervil river frontman’s vocal delivery, as well as his keen sense of imagery. on their eponymous track, the band speed up the tempo and put a crescendo in the middle, letting their head down and creating a song that should very well put them in the company of indie-pop/rock faves like nada surf. but then again, on a song like “fort fun,” the band– rounded out by andrew shaw and alexander kroh– test the dynamics of quiet-loud-quiet song structure with their heaviest song, which moves at a glacial pace, proving that its the slow ones that feel the heaviest."
what a nice thing to say. thank you so much, douglas martin. listen to his music that is called fresh cherries from yakima, if you want.
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