DAVID GARLAND - EVERY BIRD

ARTIST / BAND: DAVID GARLAND
SONG (MP3): EVERY BIRD
ALBUM: Noise in You
FILE UNDER: Alternative
LABEL: Family Vineyard

INFO: Longtime New York multi-instrumentalist David Garland has a voice for radio. Probably a good thing, given that in addition to being a pleasantly conversational-sounding singer-songwriter, Garland is radio host of WNYC's "Spinning on Air" and "Evening Music". As Pitchfork's Matthew Solarski reports, this widely respected downtown dude gets a little help from some friends on his eighth album Noise in You, out July 24 on Family Vineyard. The ambling chamber-pop of "Every Bird" enlists the vocals of one Sufjan Stevens (who also appears on the National's impressive new Boxer), plus Mi and L'au's Mira Romantschuk and Missouri-born singer-songwriter Viking Moses. Held together by Garland's 12-string guitar, the song evokes the lush arrangements of Stevens or Andrew Bird-- there's oboe, people!-- for a charming contemplation of avian mysteries. "Waiting in the wings of every bird are memories that fill the hollow bone," the erudite Garland begins. If birds fly over the rainbow, then why can't radio waves?

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