The Bird Names' "Wooden Lake / Sexual Diner" is not only a step towards complete futuristic annihilation or personal fulfillment (depending on how you look at it) - it also contains a heaping helping of uncured creative juice. We have learned to expect a lot from these swarthy young men and women, as we have seen the shining potential of their worth as contributors to the cultural stumbling ground we find ourselves a part of. With fury and hilarity betrayed by unabashed frowns and smiles, their first release on Unsound Records shows The Bird Names' creative spirit exploding forth with a raw rarity of weirdness that is not often matched in such surplus. You have to hear the deliberate declarations of "Nobody Loves Me" or the sweeping psychedelia of "New Mexico" to understand what we mean by this.
Track Listing
- Tepid Waters
- Ghosts
- New Mexico
- Before the Revolution
- Smoovebiz
- Grotesque Women
- Bodies Smell of Perfume
- Interluddic
- Nobody Loves Me
- Unibomba
- It's a Casual Request
- Beach of Teeth
- Produced and recorded by the Bird Names
- Referents
- Nazi Beach Party
- Treeless Island Peopled by Birds
- Regretting our Fathers
- Shadow Government
- Discontent Being Men
- The Space Elevator
- NaNaNaut
- In the Garment District
- New Life
- Masters of Enjoyment
- Grant's Parting Word
- Remembering While Alone
- Words are the Wheels
- Riding out Divisible Bodies
- Produced by Bird Names and Griffin Rodriguez (Blue Hawaii) at Shape Shoppe, Chicago, IL
- Engineered by Blue Hawaii and Nick Broste. Mastered by Blue Hawaii.
- Cover art by Dewayne Slightweight.