I'm always amazed when I happen to look up the addresses of labels in Brooklyn only to find they're down the street. It really makes this whole record label thing feel like a cozy, local endeavor like visiting the farmers market - only for music. The new Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk started in that window right over there. I could do walking tours and visit the kitchen tables and living rooms where the sleeves were designed, where the records you know and love were packed up. Put bronze plaques on those buildings, print “Maps to the Record Labels”, sell them on the side of the road.
I only say this because I’ve been following Fire Talk Records as they slowly have been building up an impressive catalog with a couple bands I've been hearing more and more about: Tjutjuna and Woodsman and now this limited single that started to ship yesterday from Flower Orgy.
"Our Song" off the A-Side is mic’d close, immediately intimate, its heart pulled out and set on the table in front of you. It’s all emotion with layered harmonies falling in and out of precise waves over this plodding reverb electric with a fuzzy, laid back feel. The vocals take center stage, stripped bare like Hayden, in a storytelling songwriter style crossed with a lot of the imperfections of something familiar like Sebadoh or Dump. It’s focused on the shifting harmonies with an almost psych attention to haze. A comfortable tune you get the hang of right away and sit back, eyes closed in the brushed percussion, because he wouldn't want to wake you. Instantly catchy with all too human details to make sure it won’t be confused with a produced hit and all the feeling to blast out rolled down windows as the sun goes down, turn on the headlights and splatter bugs all over the windshield driving to the desert.*
TRACK LIST
01. Our Song
02. You Don't Need Me
03. Stranded
*I've been checking out Nate Luce and Anna Fusco's travelogue as well which casts new light on this mellow piece of psych.
Get this from Firetalk Records, only 150 pressed.
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