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The bird and the bee
10 retro-futuristic art pop sound confections from California
The Bird and The Bee are Greg Kurstin (the bee) and Inara George (the bird). I just picked up their debut album this weekend, and I just can't get their highly addictive brand of electro-pop out of my head.
Greg and Inara met a few years ago. Discovered a common love of jazz standards...nerded out for a couple of hours playing every song they knew...and then wrote and recorded a record together.
The bird and the bee: the bird and the bee
Review and video after the break.
According to their MySpace page, their sound is a "A futuristic 1960's American film set in Brazil...", and reminds me of Feist or early Fantastic Plastic Machine, or what Everything But The Girl would sound like if they were in love and living by the beach instead of constantly broken hearted in foggy London.
The Los Angeles based duo is Multi-Instrumentalist/Composer/Producer Greg Kurstin has worked with Beck, The Flaming Lips, Lily Allen, Peaches and others, while Inara George is the daughter of Lowell George of Little Feat. and has been compared to a "modern day Audrey Hepburn who channels Astrud Gilberto by way of Julee Cruise".
The entire album definitely oozes groovy happiness, and will have you
bop along with a big smile on your face, while you sing "la la la-la-la
laaa-la-lala..." which are actual lyrics from track 5, aptly titled La La La.
My favorites also include the opening song Again and again, which combines toy piano chords with a a muted fuzzed out guitar riff, courtesy of the multi-instrumentalist Greg and of course the vocal styling of Inara. Actually, pretty much every single song on that album could be my favorite, and this album is currently on heavy rotation on my iPod.
Video: Again and Again
Live: I Hate Camera
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