After meeting in 1992 as members of St Etienne's touring band, Debsey Wykes (Dolly Mixture) and Paul Kelly (East Village) turned their shared love of the soft rock and sunshine pop of the 1960s and 1970s into the now-legendary Birdie. In the summer of 1998 Birdie recorded their debut album "Some Dusty" with the estimable Brian O'Shaughnessy (Denim, Moose, The Clientele). It's a deep and beautiful album, with melodic & sophisticated (yet understated) arrangements providing the perfect setting for Debsey's sweet and soulful soft-pop vocals. Add in gorgeous string arrangements from The High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan and you have all the makings of a pop classic. Subsequent singles and a second album cemented their reputation as top-notch purveyors of pop, but family life and other artistic pursuits called and Birdie has only been sporadically active since 2001. Their brief but perfectly-formed discography has become the stuff of legend, though, charming savvy pop fans around the world with its timeless songcraft and flawless production. Summer 2024 will see the long overdue vinyl reissue of "Some Dusty" on US indie label Slumberland Records, returning this classic album to much-needed availability in deluxe remastered form with a deluxe 60s-style laminated heavy card jacket and a fine insert with rare photos and liner notes by Chickfactor’s Gail O’Hara.

Some Dusty

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Birdie - Let Her Go

Forevermore is the second single to be taken from our forthcoming debut album A Bad Dream in a Raging Sea.

Lyrics:
I will try
I will try to love you right
I will try
I'll try hard to love you
I will try
I will try to love you right
And hold you in my arms forevermore

If you go
If you go don't let me know
If you go
I'd rather you died
Then I'd know
There's no way that I could show you
That I'm alive for your love

And I'm alive for your...

Love is strong, don't close me out
Say it straight to my face
There's nothing we couldn't talk about

I will try
I will try to love you right
I will try
Try hard to love you
I will try
I will try to love you right
And hold you in my arms forevermore

Hold you in my arms forever

Something's wrong, don't close me out
Say it straight to my face
There's nothing we couldn't talk about

Out August 18, 2023

Written by Waves of Dread. Recorded and mixed at Harbourmaster studios with Martin Trollope. Mastered by Alex Cook.

Forevermore

This is our upcoming single! Hope you like it!

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LYRICS

My philosophy
Always try things twice
Walk with me, you'll see
Noodles are so nice

My philosophy
Always try things twice
Walk with me, you'll see
Noodles, for life


I want noodles for life
They aint got no order
No straight lines running out
Just chaos no borders
Go where you want son
You'll stay with your brothers
And then at the end
you return to your mothers
Ill slip through his life
Like a fish seeks his water
Her crazy school showing
The way of the order
I'll sip and enjoy from the fruits of my Labour
The world rushes past,
we soon learn to savour
All the things that we see some things we don't
Some folks make what they got: some look back to ghosts
In the vacuum of time we can learn to reframe the grants we were granted now we must learn to share
I was young, so were you, we have all played the fool
I've been given the time and it comes out in rhyme
turning lists into ticks is my new therapy
I do things my own way, bowl of noodles and me.

My philosophy
Always try things twice
Walk with me, you'll see
Noodles are so nice

My philosophy
Always try things twice
Walk with me, you'll see
Noodles, for life

Noodles For Life

"A Shimmer in the Ruins" is the closing track on the new Echo Machine record "Accidental Euphoria". 

And is the final single to be released before the album arrives! 

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Out March 15th!

A Shimmer In The Ruins

Southbound

New Jersey's Lightheaded are clearly students of pop in all of its variety, drawing as much from 60s Brill Building song writers as they do from later 60s folk/pop developments and 80s DIY pop. The striking thing is how seamlessly they're able to meld these influences, and the distinctive voice that they've crafted this early in their career. Their new album "Combustible Gems" follows-up their well-regarded "Good Good Great!" EP in fine fashion, striking all the right Phil Spector/Goffin & King chords while rooting the album firmly in the NOW. Singles like "Moments Notice" and "Bright Happy Girls" possess a timeless pop charm, brimming with jangle, drama and infectious energy.

Combustible Gems

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Lightheaded - Moments Notice

Lightheaded - Dawn Hush Lullaby

Never Had

Bang Goes The Gun is an uptempo alt-pop gem which takes inspiration from Motown and the Northern Soul scene, updating the sonic palette to include synths, orchestra hits, and, as always, the dual male/female vocals of Chris McIntosh and Jen Davies. It's  the third and final single before the band’s debut album is released in May 2024 via the band's own Vinyl only record label, Defend Vinyl Records. Following on from Do The Right Thing (the previous BBC Radio 1 supported single)

Bang Goes The Gun

The new single from Oli Barton, out now on Coke & Dagger Records.

The Light

If I Could Make You Care

Slumberland began operations in 1989, inspired by such musical happenings as C-86, early Creation, Sarah, Postcard, and the UK post-punk indie label scene. Since then we've covered a lot of territory, from punk to lofi noise to shoegaze and of course pop, releasing records from bands like The Aislers Set, Boyracer, Stereolab, Rocketship, Lorelei, The Ropers, The Saturday People and Black Tambourine.

By the mid 2000s we were starting to see a resurgence of interest in guitar pop and the start of the ongoing vinyl revival: the perfect environment for Slumberland! We launched into our latest phase of activity with as string of classic releases from The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose, Veronica Falls, Allo Darlin', Joanna Gruesome and so many more.

2018 is our twenty-ninth year we are still going strong, ploughing our own furrow and bringing you unique, genre-defining (and genre-defying!) releases from bands like Smokescreens, Tony Molina, Papercuts, Business of Dreams, Peel Dream Magazine, D.A. Stern, The Spook School, Frankie Rose, Young Guv, Terry Malts and many, many more. As always, we operate entirely outside of the echo chamber of trends, fashion and phoney hipness. Slumberland bands are independent in the best way possible -- making music devoid of bullshit and true to their own voices, regardless of current popular taste.

Birdie - Let Her Go

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