Member Since: 4/5/2005
Band Website: UnsoundRecords.com
Influences: ..the BIRD NAMES have a deep and inscrutable discography of increasingly available music, including these albums:
Open Relationship (Unsound, '08)
Wooden Lake Sexual Diner (Unsound Records, '07)
"undomesticated, raucous, urgent, and alien like the 20s and 30s stuff on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music"
-- Chicago Reader
" . . . strewn through unyielding carnival rides, doused in moonshine and baked through and through . . . confusingly endearing."
-- audiversity.com
". . . like a fever dream."
-- onion a/v club
"...simple and direct and unabashedly celebratory . . . the sound of a singing-telegram lullaby as heard through the reach of 5-mile string-phone."
-- gapers block
"will satisfy your inner freak . . . a single piece of music that exists in the shadows but often strikes out with whimsy"
-- Daily Herald
"top 5 of 2007"
-- dan deacon
On Opaque Things (Pecan Crazy, '06)
"These beguiling songs sound snatched from a dream . . . childlike and terrifying . . . Surreal pop experiments [that] gleefully break paradigms and create pleasure."
-- Daily Herald
"2nd best album of 2006"
-- Jackin' Pop Critics Poll
"the best show I've ever been to . . . incredibly great"
-- Popsheep.com
Bird Names / Killer Whales 7" split (Do the Math, '06)
Fantic Yard (Heavy Medley, '05)
"simply a long, 18-track acid trip."
-- Encore Magazine
"I wouldn't have been surprised to learn that it was recorded in a men's room stall at the United Center . . . [O]ne of the brightest products of Chicago's art-damage scene in some time"
-- Chicago Reader
Sounds Like: the chordettes
Record Label: unsound, pecan crazy, do the math, heavy medley
Type of Label: Indie