Tune News: tUnE-YaRdS: BiRd-BrAiNs
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tUnE-yArDs â€" aka a haunting lo-fi pots-and-pans ensemble â€" is the creation of Merrill Garbus (also of Sister Suvi): Canada’s answer to a question never asked. As expected with lo-fi, Garbus’ debut, BiRd-BrAiNs, is full of hauntingly underplayed vocals and a rag-tag assortment of instruments, lead by Garbus’ own ukulele. The album itself is a mishmash for the senses, but at times the wilful eccentricity becomes overwhelming, and you are left feeling impersonalised by a genre which aims to place you three-feet from the singer at all times.
Although Garbus has managed to get a large underground following, perhaps by self-releasing...
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