Happy BIRPday! This playlist marks 11 years of BIRP.fm! 🎂
My selections for February 2020. Hear the full playlist at http://www.birp.fm 💛

BIRP! February 2020

Taken from the album, Luxury Alone, out June 10th
LP/CD - http://smarturl.it/LuxuryAlone.LtdVinyl
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/YungAlbum.iTunes

"It's been a long and short four years. Weird Dreams never stopped for me, it just became private. The songwriting was a near constant.

"There's more music to share soon, but starting with 'The Ladder' now feels right, as it was the first song of real difference, and remained unfinished for a few years while I obsessed over an image that I began to pursue as sound on the last Weird Dreams song before this one ('House of Secrets') - the reflections of water on a swimming pool ceiling at night.

"For reasons that are still unclear, this imagined image of light and water moved me in a desperate time, distracting from what felt like the rest of the world falling away." - Doran Edwards, Weird Dreams

https://www.facebook.com/weirddreams

iTunes

Weird Dreams - The Ladder

Machine

Super Natural Teeth

Gold

clara luz

Trauma Kit

raviolo

Lait De Tigre

TOPS' new album 'I Feel Alive' is out April 3rd, 2020.

LISTEN / DOWNLOAD: https://tops.lnk.to/IFeelAlive

Pre-order TOPS' new album "I Feel Alive" on LP/CD/Cassette/Digital: https://tops.lnk.to/IFeelAlive 

TOPS on tour in April/May 2020: http://tttopsss.com/#tour

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/tttopsss/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TTTOPSSS
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/tttopsss/
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when I saw you wanted to spend the night
with someone else at home I knew it wasn’t right

I feel alive looking in your eyes

conversation that I did not like
faces in the street I wish I didn’t recognize

I feel alive looking in your eyes

lost nights, trying to remember 
when I’m in your arms I can finally surrender

I feel alive looking in your eyes

I Feel Alive

TOPS - I Feel Alive

Summer Mixtape

Bitter

Fade To Blue

https://soundcloud.com/bowlfrizell
streaaam - https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/bowlfrizellandchristofbed/leave-me-a-line

Loook out for the full EP out everywhere November 23rd

Leave me a line 
maybe i can come and call you sometime
if not well thats fine
but that'll only be your loss and not mine
I want to play you run away
and once again i'm alone
my heart was played your suit was spade
and now my chances are blown
you know if really hurts when you say you don't want to be with me

I want to be a man who has some game
i thought shes the one to know my name

you ought to be mine 
and since you're not i'm going out of my mind
we're two of a kind 
i'm hoping that you'll realize it in time
another day new lines to say 
still an unlikely affair
perfume and gel don't do much else 
than give me spikier hair
When you ignore me all it really does is make me want you more

I want to be a man who has some game
i thought shes the one to know my name

Leave Me A Line (w/ Bowl Frizell)

My Noel liked Sundays and the paper
And painting in the kitchen
Daytime television

My Noel left a lifetime in the rear view
Now I’m driving without someone to talk to

My Noel and all your spells, you’re all I need
And my someone to talk to in the morning
Walk to in the morning

My Noel left a white sheet in the garden
And her glasses on the mantel
A flicker in the candle

My Noel like a sunbeam looking just right
In the bona fide and beautiful morning light

My Noel and all your spells, you’re all I need
And my someone to talk to in the morning
Walk to in the morning

Noel in the Garden

Sipper - O.K.

Listen: levelmusic.lnk.to/Sipper_OK

Follow Sipper:

Facebook: http://bit.ly/2BL5l88
Instagram: http://bit.ly/SipperIG

Lyrics:

Kate I’m home I wait around I told you 
Too late I know I hate it every time you go 


I just take my head off slowly watch my fingers as they grow 
I’m still other Michael move me I need something 
I can’t lose 

Ok I don't wanna wait around for you but I do I do 

I’m fake I wont do a thing I say I do but it’s true I do 

I just take my head off slowly watch my fingers as they grow 
I’m still other Michael move me I need something 
I can’t lose 

Ok I don't wanna wait around for you but I do 
I do 
I’m I fake wont do a thing I say 
I do but it’s true I do

Sipper - O.K.

Mamalarky's debut Fire Talk single! 

More from Mamalarky in 2020, stay tuned. 

www.firetalkrecs.com/mamalarky

Fury

Mamalarky - Fury

Written by Noah Kittinger 
Produced by Noah Kittinger & Paul Kintzing 
Mixed by Paul Kintzing & Noah Kittinger
Mastered by Paul Kintzing 
Guitars, drums, & sampler performed by Noah Kittinger 
Bass & synth performed by Paul Kintzing 
Saxophone performed by Blake Parker

Gulf

© 2022 Stray Fossa under exclusive license to Born Losers Records
Written and performed by Stray Fossa
 Produced by William Evans 
Album art by Chris Minielly (Jaguar Sun)

Lyrics:
I wanted to get out there anyway,
try to catch a cold in for the day.
To see a film meant more decisions,
and no one watches television.

It’s not that I could help it; to start
I was a kid and cut my own hair in the dark—
belief I found annoying.
The talk of death could get so boring.

Time goes to waste in a year,
and I’m hoping
that we’ll remain friends.
Are you gonna be
okay?

Bet you’re thinking that there must be more to this,
window shopping in a life that you made of glass.
Oh won’t you tell me what you’re feeling,
not another reason.

Look around a land of fibers at the cars,
at the stores all pushing nothing and at once;
hope that you enjoy it—
not that you can own it.

Smile, are you really there,
and you’ll give it
everything that you can?
Timeless and mean in the end,
and you dare it,
all we left unsaid.

Music by Nicholas Evans, William Evans, Zachary Blount
Lyrics by Nicholas Evans
Produced by William Evans and Stray Fossa
Recorded and mixed by William Evans in Charlottesville, VA
© 2020 Stray Fossa

Will Evans: vocals, drums, percussion
Zach Blount: vocals, bass
Nick Evans: vocals, guitars

Cover photo by Steven Miller 
(CC BY 2.0; cropped, full image found here: https://bit.ly/2B7JBpw)

Closer Than We'll Ever Know

Buy vinyl on Bandcamp

Are You Gonna Be Okay

‘Mark Zuckerberg’ from ’Snapshot of a Beginner’ by Nap Eyes, available March 27th, 2020 on Jagjaguwar

Pre-Order / Stream: https://napeyes.ffm.to/snapshotofabeginner

Nap Eyes - Mark Zuckerberg

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Elated

Traffic

From Deeper's Sophomore LP "Auto-Pain" out March 27th on Fire Talk.

What do you do when pain blots out joy? How do you learn to take care of yourself? What happens when the things you think are helping end up doing the most harm? 'Auto-Pain' is the Sophomore album from Deeper, a record that finds the band embracing open space, using synths to create shadows where bricks of guitars once would’ve blocked out the sun. The group — singer and guitarist Nic Gohl, bassist Drew McBride, and drummer Shiraz Bhatti — were all graduates of Chicago’s rich DIY scene who came together around their love of Wire, Devo, Gang of Four, and Television. While the new record is still within the Great Lakes post-punk tradition of their debut, the album isn’t as insular as its predecessor; it’s less interested in pile-driving and more willing to dwell in liminal spaces. Guitars enter the picture precisely, locked bass grooves propel things forward. Drummer Shiraz Bhatti, who is half-Pakistani and half-Native American, embraced the drumming patterns he’d heard growing up at pow-wows, channeling the anxieties of his heritage into his playing and keeping the group grounded when they switch into all-out percussive attack. The result is an album both more nuanced and catchy.Auto-Pain represents the constant wave of depression felt by many in everyday life. Stemmed from Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, Auto-Pain is a concept meant to be an inverse to soma, a pill in the book which makes everything numb. The idea of auto-pain is to epitomize the desire to return to a connection with thoughts and clarity, which comes at the expense of feeling everything simultaneously. The album artwork features the now-demolished Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago capturing the band’s rounded-off brutalism, and the album title appears in Urdu, a nod to drummer Shiraz Bhatti’s Pakistani heritage. The record was recorded and mixed by Chicago scene luminary Dave Vetraino (Lala Lala, Dehd) and mastered at Chicago Mastering by Greg Obis (Ne-Hi, Melkbelly).

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