Bird Names

The Bird Names saw the star of heavy medley, guising about their chicago home and afield, too, for a few fair years. Once they wrong-rocked: clefting audiences with irresponsible volume and noises, but later lessly, invoking such energies to ramp up the slant of their pop, and not barely at all rocking wrong. Coming later charmful the players were: Albert Schatz, David Lineal, Colin Hartz, Liam Warfield, and Eleanor Balson: spooking about ghostsome were Eric and Naomi besides.

Unsound Records was proud as a warrior’s village to be affiliated with these creative elemental creatures. This energetic Chicago-based outfit had all the guts needed to make sweetest gravy. The newest transplant to our dirt at the time, we watered them and tried to make sure they got much light throughout the passage of time.

The Chicago Reader said they sounded like they might’ve been recorded “in a men’s stall at the United Center” and the Illinois Entertainer offered that it “literally consists of patience-trying noises across lo-fi offerings.” The later “Traceland Recordings” and “On Opaque Things” struck for this bar: Time Out Chicago called the latter one of the most charming local releases of the year.