Birdseed Shirt

Today's Music of the Day is Birdseed Shirt, by Deleted Scenes. This music was acquired via eMusic due to my complete lack of association with the band. As I have almost no background on this album, let's just talk about the sound.

Birdseed Shirt is largely a benign indie record. It features standard instruments - perhaps a little more drumming than, say, a Phoenix record, but probably less than a Yeah Yeah Yeahs album - and a singer with a relatively thin tenor voice. Some bells and piano show up here, as well, and are generally incorporated well. Most of the songs are pretty safe; occasionally the band gets rambunctious - see "Mortal Sin" - but it's a pretty easygoing record, altogether.

This album is fairly enjoyable, if too safe for its own good. If anything, Deleted Scenes could stand to be more irate or wounded - the lively moments here are the best part of the album. Some of the songs are fairly good - "City That Never Wakes Up" has a nice progression, and "Get Your [Stuff] Together for the Holidays" more so - but mostly, the album isn't engaging enough to be memorable. While I don't personally outright detest this album - it would probably be the best Shins album - I can't strongly recommend it, either.

In Other News:
Yes, the blog posts have been brief as of late. Perhaps I'll get excited about something in the near future.

I've been listening to the Handsome Furs this week. Good stuff - this might be what pushes me back into the 500+ word post territory that I poked around in for a while.

Please let the next two days be merciful.