ARTIST: Birdlips
TITLE: Cardboard Wings
LABEL: Birdlips Music
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 204kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 33m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-00-00
RIP DATE: 2009-03-20
Track List
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1. Cardboard Wings 3:40
2. Magicfish 3:59
3. When The Last Light Goes Out 2:42
4. Scarecrow 3:30
5. Giving Up 4:56
6. Tire Chains 3:18
7. Some Kind Of Death 2:56
8. Blades Of Grass 3:42
9. Home 1:53
10. Dream Within A Dream 3:01
Release Notes:
http://www.myspace.com/birdlipsmusic
ôCardboard Wings reminds me in one moment of the music played in the back of a
gyspyÆs caravan and in the next it seems to slide out from an open window
overlooking the busy intersection of the world. The occasional plucking of a
banjo gives these songs a rustic feel, but then thereÆs a haunted modern flavor
in the mix that is equal parts Nick Drake and Mazzy Star... There is some
strange magic in this music and Birdlips now has me under its spell.ö - Shaun
Harvey, cvilleMUSE
ô...the romantic Cardboard Wings combines the outdoor, lyrical approach of
Wordsworth with the terse intensity of Shelley. A traveler's confessional
lament, the album jumbles flute, guitar, and piano into raw folk melodies;
they've been plucked from various countries, but they still come out sounding
predestined, like a perfect black-and-white film where nothing is out of place.ö
- Afton Woodward, NPR
ô...the updated, sophisticated and polished version of everyoneÆs favorite lo-fi
folk artists of the 60Æs and 70Æs. Were Nick Drake playing music today, heÆd be
touring with Birdlips. UsherÆs voice is something like Jeff Buckley meets Andrew
Bird û commanding and a little rough around the edges, with a strength and
maturity that belies his 20-something years. PittsÆ creative work on the keys
(and her too-rare singing) is the perfect complement; it is a soft fleecy layer
that assures the overall warmth of the music.ö - the Connection Newspapers
ôCardboard Wings sounds like the product of a precocious young man that trusted
the tidal pull of his gut, severing instruments from their past histories to
patch together a motley orchestra that resonates with him... And the landscape
is all liminalùclose to sleep or waking, dawn or dusk, crossing borders and
bodies, the type of grand events that make countless writers feel small in scale
but enormous in perspective... Cardboard Wings is a remarkable first record.ö -
Brendan Fitzgerald, C-VILLE News and Arts Weekly (2/19/08)
"our favorite local record of the year...I canÆt tell you how I wound up with a
copy of Cardboard Wings on my desk. I can tell you, however, that IÆve listened
to the album more than any record by a local band since I first reviewed it in
February of this year, that the song ôWhen the Last Light Goes Outö has played
20 times on my computer at work and at least twice as many times in my car. And
that, when I hit the end of ôDream Within a Dream,ö part of me always wants to
start from the beginning." - Brendan Fitzgerald, C-VILLE News and Arts Weekly
(9/23/08)