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Off the new album - WELCOME BACK FROM WHEREVER YOU'VE BEEN - Out September 3rd. 

Pulling Me Back

The "Definition Sickness" album is available now at: http://tinyurl.com/DefinitionSickness 

Stand outs in the indie-rap haven of Minnesota, No Bird Sing combines the talents of emcee Joe Horton, drummer/producer Graham O'Brien, and guitarist/producer Robert Mulrennan. With Definition Sickness, the trio has maintained the integrity of their live-band roots while exploring a more produced sound that ranges from stark minimalism to lush expansiveness. 

The first single, “DON’T THINK”, is a brooding track where Horton shares vocal duties with SFR label head SAGE FRANCIS. Other guests on the album include FIX cohorts Crescent Moon (Kill the Vultures) and Kristoff Krane, as well as Sadistik, Chastity Brown, James Diers (Halloween, Alaska), Aby Wolf, Adam Svec and Molly Dean.

NBS released their eponymous debut to critical acclaim in 2009. Their 2011 follow-up, "Theft of the Commons", along with the US tour dates that followed, served to expand their loyal, burgeoning fanbase across the Midwest and beyond. 

Their SFR debut,  Definition Sickness, offers a meditative commentary on modern life, owing much to leftist political theorists like Howard Zinn as well as Eastern-leaning philosophers like Alan Watts and Lao Tzu. Musically the dark, transcendent instrumentation of the record creates a rich and varied soundscape that will immediately entice fans of multiple genres. Repeat listeners will be rewarded by both the layered lyrical themes and the ear candy that’s provided by the nuanced sonic compositions. 

"If you took away the vocals, you'd never know it was hip hop," admits drummer/producer Graham O'Brien. "We're just investigating the relationship between hip hop and other genres—taking the spoken, rhythmic word and putting it in other places."  

"That's what creativity is," vocalist Horton says. "It's coming to this point where you don't know exactly what you're doing and having to figure out what to do. The second you're not doing that, you're just rehashing old shit."
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the FULL ALBUM is HERE

"Don't Think" - NO BIRD SING feat. SAGE FRANCIS

I don't know how to love myself. I'm hoping you can show me how.
Cross my heart with all your might. Lift me up and slow me down.
Spoken honest, broken promise builds a fire inside of me.
Childish schemes and wildest dreams. I don't care if you lie to me.
Live two lives instead of one. Depend on the soft-spoken killer.
Tie your hands behind your back and build upon this broken pillar.
Love is like a suicide. Broken hearts are unified.
This place is strange. Faces change. Bodies crowned and crucified.

And will you risk my life?
I'll fill you with my light.
And will you hold my breath?
Yes I'll love you to death.

La sublimation des muses 
nous emmène dans une ardeur
timide et pesante
intime et fascinante

Les amants se livrent à des échanges
torrides et turbulents
telle une passion 
absolue et divine


I'm exactly like a phenomenon and so are you.
Yes, exactly like a phenomenon. It's hard
To explain, the truest pain. When all is lost, still you remain.
Cross my path and hope to die. Needle stuck into my vein.
Searching for my whereabouts. Heat from flames we'll never douse.
Complete the circle of my life. Fill my void with all your doubts.
The lyrics of my favorite songs scare me so bad, I can't sleep.
Lonely throes. God Only Knows. Slowly, coldest shadows creep.

And will you risk my life?
I'll fill you with my light.
And will you hold my breath?
Yes I'll love you to death.

You touched my heart and now I'm wounded. Opened wide, that's why it bled.
Fires raging down below and hanging on just by a thread.
It's on the line. Chances taken. Reaching out for stings and kisses.
Beckon call. Wrecking ball. Bed and gardens. Swings and misses.
Cancelling each other out. Living fast and given wholly.
Ever closer to the sun, each of us has one wing only.
I'm exactly like a phenomenon and so are you.
Yes, exactly like a phenomenon...
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Written & produced by Joëlle Lê (Greetings From Tuskan)
Lyrics & vocals: Rich Terfry (Buck 65)
Additional vocals: Joëlle Lê

Sublimation

This is the remix I submitted to the SFR Remix contest for the No Bird Sing & Sage Francis jam "Don't Think"

No Bird Sing & Sage Francis - DONT THINK- ECID REMIX

SEA LION - Sage Francis, Will Oldham, Saul Williams

NO BIRD SING's "Definition Sickness" LP drops Nov 12 on SFR. Pre-sales available at: http://tinyurl.com/DefinitionSickness

"And War" features Molly Dean on vocals. Video directed by Andre Durand:
http://youtu.be/Cp-lDC9xksY

Minneapolis-based 3 piece hip-hop band NO BIRD SING is set to drop their "DEFINITION SICKNESS" LP on November 12, 2013 via STRANGE FAMOUS RECORDS.

No Bird Sing combines the talents of emcee Joe Horton, drummer/producer Graham O'Brien, and guitarist/producer Robert Mulrennan. With "Definition Sickness", the trio has maintained the integrity of their live-band roots while exploring a more produced sound that ranges from stark minimalism to lush expansiveness. The first video from the album, "And War", examines the central decision faced by citizens of an empire in decline: cling to dying ideas and anesthetics or resolve to experience a disquieting reality with more depth and clarity?

Set in a near-future America, the video follows one man through a derelict city as he encounters LED-clad jackers, underground auctions, and users of a mysterious, opiate-like drug. It's clear that the man is searching for something, but neither he nor the viewer has more than a faint sense of what that might be. "And War" presents viewers with a vision of America only slightly removed from their own, asking them to view their own declining empires, both personal and political, with new eyes.

"Definition Sickness" will be available in stores as well as iTunes and all major digital retailers on November 12, 2013. Exclusive pre-order packages are available now at http://tinyurl.com/DefinitionSickness

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"And War" - NO BIRD SING (feat. Molly Dean)

Video: https://youtu.be/QrJU1h0_x6w
SICK TO D(EAT)H is the newest edition to SAGE FRANCIS'  "Sick of" mixtape series: http://tinyurl.com/SickToDeathSFR
Available on MP3, CD and cassette. It features contributions by Atmosphere, B. Dolan, Buck 65, Buddy Peace, Cecil Otter, DJ EQ, Kurtis SP, Lord Grunge, No Bird Sing, Prolyphic, Reanimator, Scroobius Pip and many more. The full tracklist and breakdown of each track, along with some additional updates from Mr. Francis, available here: http://www.strangefamousrecords.com/blogs/sage-francis-blog/sick-to-death
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Sick to D(eat)h

SICK TO DEATH mixtape

"YOU CAN'T WIN" - EPIC BEARD MEN (Sage Francis + B. Dolan)

Scroobius Pip "DISTRACTION PIECES" is available now on CD, vinyl & MP3 at: http://tinyurl.com/DistractionPieces 

Scroobius Pip's "Let Em Come" takes a more somber tone in this SFR REDUX where he is joined on the mic by 3 Strange Famous affiliates: Sage Francis, Metermaids &amp; Cecil Otter. Fresh off the heels of his Wugazi project, Cecil Otter also produced the beat. The artwork for this digital single was done by Carl Sutton.


Save room at the dinner table.

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Distraction Pieces LP

Let Em Come REDUX (Scroobius Pip, Sage Francis, Metermaids, Cecil Otter)

I wrote this song at a coffee shop in Fargo, ND when there was a blizzard outside back in November of 2010.

If I got into the details over who's girlfriend this was about you would freak out. I recorded it in ONE take, on Garage Band, in a hotel room, with Patric on the phone next to me while eating pizza.

Mac Lethal - SLUT (hotel room demo)

Mac Lethal - Black Rainbow

Kristoff Krane - Always Be a Friend

A Year After (Bike For Three! promo track)

Battle Hymn featuring Apathy, King Syze, Crypt the Warchild, Jus Allah, Esoteric, Blacastan, Celph Titled & Planetary.  Produced by Mr. Green.  From Vinnie Paz's "God of the Serengeti" album available now.

Battle Hymn feat. Apathy, King Syze, Crypt, Jus Allah, Esoteric, Blacastan, Celph Titled & Planetary

Grieves teams with Jonathan Olivares to put a new spin on "Bloody Poetry".

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and Fifth Element: http://bit.ly/lDLAvh

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Grieves - Bloody Poetry (Acoustic Remix ft. Jonathan Olivares)

No Bird Sing's 2nd Album.  Written by No Bird Sing.  Vocals by Joe Horton.  Guitars by Robert Mulrennan.  Drums by Graham O'Brien.  Mixed by Adam Krinsky.  Additional Mixing by Graham O'Brien.  Mastered by Greg Reirson.

11 Pretty Pocket Snatchers

07 Outcasted

02 Afterlife Insurance

No Bird Sing's 1st Album. Written by No Bird Sing. Vocals by Joe Horton. Guitars by Robert Mulrennan. Drums by Graham O'Brien. Additional production by Graham O'Brien on tracks 1,6 & 11.  Mixed by Adam Krinsky. Mastered by Greg Reirson.

02 Devil Trombones

03 Dream

06 Night At Arms

07 Land Mines

08 Confession Of The 40th Thief

09 Ars Poetica

11 Sparrows

12 Sharp Plastic

New single from Mixed Blood Majority, the super group featuring Crescent Moon (Kill The Vultures), Joe Horton (No Bird Sing), and Lazerbeak (Doomtree).  

Debut full length album available now

store.doomtree.net/product/mixed-blood-majority-cd

Raps: Crescent Moon, Joe Horton, Cecil Otter
Beat: Lazerbeak

Free Up (ft. Cecil Otter)

How did it bleed? It bled like fire.

Je retiens l'écume de ton sommeil.

When the winds are changing, begins the raging.
Sins are strange and within the range.
When we're being electrocuted, dreaming and echoes disputed,
Who can sleep at a time like this?

When we're being chased by devils, erased by levels,
Revels in the chaos, embraced by rebels,
Lives are being darkened, knives are being sharpened.
Who can sleep at a time like this?
The sun is exploding, gun is unloading.
A girl with a sense of fun and foreboding.
Tie my wrists and find my kiss.
Who can sleep at a time like this?

Reviens- moi à ton réveil.

When the weights are lifting, the plates are shifting,
Places are traded and fates are drifting.
When Audrey is Hepbrun, an obvious left turn,
Who can sleep at a time like this?
Citizen and number. Minimum and younger.
A word in private. A synonym for hunger.
Tie my wrists and find my kiss.
Who can sleep at a time like this?

Actions mechanical. The fashions are flammable.
Cameras are flashing. Passions are animal.
Deeply sacred. Uniquely vacant.
Sleepy hatred. Completely naked.
Fade to black and highlight red.
The accepted voidage of a finite bed.
Tie my wrists and find my kiss.
Who can sleep at a time like this?
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Written & produced by Joëlle Lê (Greetings From Tuskan)
Lyrics & vocals: Rich Terfry (Buck 65)
Additional vocals: Joëlle Lê
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02 Devil Trombones

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