Artist.......: Suicidal Birds
Album........: Versus Life
Label........: Tocado
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Feb-25-2007
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.suicidalbirds.com/
track title time
01. No Nada 03:21
02. No Way 01:41
03. No Fun No Art 03:15
04. Friendly Land 02:25
05. Into The Black 03:29
06. Sensible Sinners 05:03
07. City Lights 01:21
08. No Use 03:36
09. No Summer 03:23
10. No Light 03:16
11. Salt Sugar 02:56
12. Versus Life 03:00
13. Vegi Garden Song 04:24
Runtime 41:10 min
Size 60,7 MB
Release Notes:
The Suicidal Birds are two girls ( Jessie: vocals,
guitar / Chay: bass guitar, vocals) from the
northern province Friesland, the Netherlands. The
release of their debut album "Z-List" early 2005 on
the Dutch independent label Transformed Dreams
caused rave reviews in the Netherlands and UK.
Airplay on Dutch alternative radio, BBC radio-one,
xfm and on live webcast programme on dirty Radio by
Rick Smith and Karl Hyde from Underworld, press-
attention and extensive touring in the Netherlands
and the UK ( more tours followed). The band got
invited by BBC radio one programme one music ( the
follow-up to the John Peel programmes) to do a
studio-session for the programme at Maida Vale
studio's, which was broadcast on September 27,
2005. In February 2006 they recorded a half hour
live set for the programme at Maida Vale studio's,
broadcasted march 28, 2006. The song "me animal"
was voted # 41 in 2005 s festive fifty on bbc radio
one s one music programme.
The bands rapidly established live-reputation also
led to two invitations by Dinosaur Jr. to be their
support in Holland and Belgium. They played some
out-door festivals and both the EuroSonic and
Noorderslag-festivals in Groningen, the
Netherlands, January 2006.
The album was voted at number 10 in the end-year
list of best albums of 2005 ( including
international releases) by Dutch main alternative
radio-station vpro 3 voor 12.
The Suicidal Birds did 4 UK tours so far and 1
France tour and a lot of gigs in Germany.
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Their second album "Versus Life", released on the
Dutch independent label Tocado Records will be
released early 2007. UK , France and Italian tours
will follow short after the release of this new
album.
Music:
Armed with out-dated amps, ( self made) pedals,
drum machine, bass guitar, guitar and the elastic
strong and moving voice of singer Jessie they bring
up a up raging storm, drenched in the raw passion
the blues: Intense, urgent, confronting, personal,
sometimes treacherously playful, exciting and
inescapable. With a voice full of character,
uncompromisingly distorted guitar- and vocal sounds
and at times overwhelming sound-orgy, they manage
to give feelings of doubt, craziness, tragedy, sex
& drugs, hope and despair, believe and disbelieve
a musical format deeply rooted in the blues
combined with the energy of punk emphasising the
rough and readiness, weirdness and wilderness that
is so essential in rock and roll.