Au Revoir Simone 'The Bird of Music' album

For a band named after a fleeting goodbye – their name was taken from a line in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure – songs on The Bird of Music establish quite a bit of emotional permanence. Written and recorded in Brooklyn over the last year (with the exception of Erika’s “I Couldn’t Sleep,” written while on holiday in Japan), The Bird of Music is an album steeped in hazy dreams, thoroughbred horses, soft winter snows, dusty rays of sunlight and lovelorn wishes. It is a record of dichotomies, carefully marrying cold beats with warm voices, joy and sadness, the human and the machine.

Retaining the band’s signature sound, they endeavored to expand their arrangements beyond what they had done on Verses…, thus bringing a more organic touch to their songs by including some strings, vibraphone, cymbals, and more. The result is a gorgeous reverie of sound. “Fallen Snow” laces a happy-go-lucky, swinging organ with a melancholy narrative about empty beds, lonely dinners, and flighty lovers made all the sweeter with waves of “ahh’s” right in the middle. “I Couldn’t Sleep” reaches for late-night company, not comforting, amongst a Peng!-era Stereolab farfisa, while “A Violent Yet Flammable World” was written after playing Iceland Airwaves in 2005, creating the sonic equivalent of the rigid, expansive textures found in the Icelandic landscape. Otherwordly, indeed, but that’s just the sort of effect that Au Revoir Simone has on you.

Au Revoir Simone will be releasing The Bird of Music on their very own label, Our Secret Record Company. The girls will also be hitting the road this spring.

What the Press is Saying:

“A collision between the Waitresses, Stereolab and Kings of Convenience, their music has power from what it holds back rather than spells out, and is just waiting to be fallen in love with (or to).” -- The London Times

“Eschewing the typical guitar-heavy band set-up for old-school synthesizers and vintage drum machines, [Au Revoir Simone] create dreamy synth-pop. Their soft ethereal vocals laid over spare homemade drumbeats are reminiscent of Air and Stereolab.” – British Vogue

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Au Revoir Simone - The Bird of Music