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Tune-Yards

Bird-Brains


heavyweight 180 gram vinyl with a poster and housed in a high quality flapped pvc bag plus for a limited time a 5 track dvd called the '4ad sessions' 'birdbrains' started as a pay what you want release on wwwtuneyardscom and now has been picked up by 4ad merrill garbus the one woman force behind tuneyards recorded her debut album 'birdbrains' at essentially zero cost to herself using a laptop with free software and voice recorder that were both gifts on the album you can hear african chants merrill's oftpicked ukulele stolen drum beats a free spirit electronics a shapeshifting voice and unique yet instantly accessible pop music it comes across like a selfcontained sublime frequencies compilation jumping between blues african tunes shiny reggaeesque sprawls and lofi folk infusing the worldly sonic palette of mia or postpunk pioneers the raincoats the album ranges from the surreal to the sublime with 'lions' halfway between a singsong schoolyard rhyme and a graveyard blues whilst 'jamaican' could be the blueprint to a timbalandproduced gem with it's ricocheting drums pattern and intoxicating tape loops an intimate yet powerful album that is a must own for fans of micachu animal collective etc

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