Music by Bird & The War
Lyrics by Peter Kistler

My head is adobe
My heart is stained glass
As shards of shimmering slivers pass

In reckless halls of many a moon
In rumbling rhythm of maniac… soon

In scarlet your shoe
In ribbon your hair
The pipe dream in gray
As we met on the stair

To exchange all the currency glances can give
And return to the tree in the locked halls where we lived

No wings (up above)
No strings (when in Love)
No high (up above)
No sigh (when in Love)

Say the longest goodbye
In the tunnel of Love
The lorries and liliths make way up above

The echoing yellow
Tile will declare
The next one is comin'
With the blowing of air


Adobe

Music by Bird & The War
Lyrics by Chris Chavez

Hopeful eyes to right my bad
Hunger lies in bone and flesh
When time holds tight
To dirt for bed
My plight… Confined and hold it in

Said goodbye without a chance
Blindside and harbor it
Fortnight some find confidence
In time I'll find a use for it

Some light. Sunrise
I'm bad. I'm kind
Don't fight. I'm blind
Don't write. I'm fine

Stand right and hold your head
Hands tied and bloody red
Long night. Long fight. And now for bed
In time suns rise and set again


Bone & Flesh

Music by Bird & The War
Lyrics by Chris Chavez

Under lock and key
For a head start
Hope to God you stay
A house ain’t a home without you

When the knife comes
How ya gonna hold up?
Stayin’ late up hours
Hours just ain't long enough

Heavy low down
Work it out now
Do it right or just don't
I couldn't care less about it

It's always my way
Or a throw away
Scarlet red run vein
Run it up and let it out

(I said it like I know)

Stand your ground
Shout it out
What is it now?
I don't want to hear about it

Where's the start
Your heavy heart
A wrinkled glance
Furrowed brow and weathered hands

See to cry on darkest night
Just sell your right
Just give it up or get on out
Just give it up or get on out
Just get on out


Lock & Key

Rhetoric

Rattled

Heights

Scarlet EP//B-Sides

Stone Heart Acoustic (2013)

Bread Crumbs (2013)

Summer (2010)

Scarlet (2010)

Yellow Paint (20011)

Adobe (2009)

Rattled Acoustic (2008)

Suitcases (2008)

The Fall (2008)

BIRD & THE WAR IS A POST-ROCK BAND FROM LOS ANGELES, CA

BIRD & THE WAR IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL POST-ROCK BAND. BY ARCHITECTING A COLORFUL SONIC BLEND OF  ELECTRONICA, AMBIENT, SHOEGAZE AND MORE, THEY’VE CREATED AN UNDENIABLY ORIGINAL, CINEMATIC, AND EVEN REVOLUTIONARY FORCE IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCENE. LAYERING INNOVATIVE TEXTURES AND TONES ONTO THE FAMILIAR AESTHETICS OF BANDS LIKE BON IVER, THE NATIONAL, AND EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, B&TW OFFERS AN IMPRESSIONISTIC COMPILATION OF AUTHENTICITY, EMOTION AND QUIET AGGRESSION— MAKING THEM A UNIQUE VOICE IN THE CONTEMPORARY ALT SOUNDSCAPE.

YOU CAN UNLOCK THE FULL, SYMPHONIC ARTISTRY OF B&TW ON THEIR SELF-TITLED E.P. FROM THE ALMOST-MEDITATIVE FIRST TRACK, “LOCK & KEY,” SONGWRITER AND FRONTMAN CHRIS JAMES BUILDS A SONIC STRUCTURE AROUND THE LISTENER, BRICK BY BRICK, BEFORE THE SONG COLLAPSES BACK INTO MINIMALISM FOLLOWED BY THE DRIVEN, YET AMBITIOUS “STONE HEART” TRANSITIONING SEAMLESSLY INTO THE LEONARD COHEN-ESQUE TRACK “BONE & FLESH,” WHICH IS NOTABLE FOR ITS PENSIVE REFLECTION. “ADOBE” IS THE STRAIGHTEST, MOST POP-SENSIBLE SONG ON THE ALBUM, BUILT ON A THREE-CHORD STRUCTURE. HOWEVER, BY “ADOBE’S” END, B&TW SLIPS IN A SERIES OF MULTI-LAYERED AND IMPRESSIONISTIC VOCALS AND GUITARS. AND SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST, “LOCHS & LAKES” DRIVES THE LISTENER WITH A SERIES OF DYNAMIC GEAR SHIFTS SPLICED WITH AN ASTUTE USE OF TECHNOLOGY VIA AUTO-TUNE.

MUCH OF CALIFORNIA HAS ALREADY DISCOVERED BIRD & THE WAR, FROM THE NORCAL CLUB SCENE (SAN FRANCISCO’S HOTEL UTAH), TO SOCAL’S FINEST VENUES (ANAHEIM’S HOUSE OF BLUES, THE CONSTELLATION ROOM, HOLLYWOOD’S ON THE ROX AND AVALON BARDOT, DOWNTOWN L.A.’S BODEGA CALIFAS). THEY’VE PARTNERED WITH ORANGE COUNTY PRODUCER// RECORDING ENGINEER JOSHUA P. BROOKS, ACCLAIMED SOCAL VIDEO ARTISTS LITTLE FELLA MEDIA, AND ARE CURRENTLY SIGNED WITH LOS ANGELES-BASED MUSIC PUBLISHERS RIPTIDE MUSIC GROUP.

BUT TO LABEL B&TW A CALIFORNIA BAND IS INSUFFICIENT. WITH THE UPCOMING RELEASE OF THEIR FULL LENGTH ALBUM 'R H E T O R I C', TO THE WIDESPREAD POPULARITY THEY’VE FOUND ON THE INTERNET, THIS IS A BAND WHOSE REACH—LIKE THEIR SOUND—DEFIES CONVENTIONAL BOUNDARIES. MUSIC WEBSITES HAVE GIVEN EXTENSIVE NOTICE TO B&TW’S UP-AND-COMING SOUND, WHICH EXAMINER CALLED “MUSICAL BLOWS WITH GENTLE REPOSE, SIMULTANEOUSLY EXPOSING THEIR SOFT UNDERBELLY TO THE LISTENER.” BLACK ON THE CANVAS HAS DECLARED: “BIRD & THE WAR TAKE FLIGHT AND CLIMB ABOVE THE PACK. THIS BAND STANDS OUT WITH AN ORIGINAL SOUND THAT GRABS YOUR ATTENTION FAST AND MAKES A LASTING IMPRESSION.”

THE FUTURE IS NOW FOR THE SOCAL DUO, AND THEIR MUSICAL VISION IS HEARTBREAKING, EMOTIONAL AND ARRESTING TO THE LISTENER. DON’T BE SURPRISED IF YOU HEAR BIRD & THE WAR ON LOCAL RADIO, ON YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC APP, OR ON A MOVIE SOUNDTRACK. MEET THE AMBIENT INDIE-ROCK BAND THAT’S POISED TO RECONFIGURE MODERN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC FOR YEARS TO COME.

BIRD & THE WAR

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