Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream

G’day mate. That and opposite spinning toilets are  the extent of my knowledge regarding Australian dialect. Nevertheless, I’m liking what I’m hearing come from down under. First Wally de Backer (see Gotye) and The Basics (new album out, btw). And now there’s the new EP from Bird Automatic Not Morning People. This is a wonderful little sampling of music from  a talented quintet out of Sydney.

Bird Automatic does best when using its ‘quiet voice’ as opposed to the emotive-arena-rock of “Drew a Line”. The rolling bassline, slap-happy clapping and ebb-and-flow of “Fireflies” sounds like a lot like a Pinback resurrection, and you’re no hearing complains from me on that front. “Borders not Boundaries” illustrates how purely affable Bird Automatic is, and there’s certainly plenty of potential to be spoken for here.

Best line (from ‘Drew a Line’): “Difference is tearin’ us apart”

Check out their website.

Download “Fireflies” free from  Bird Automatic’s website.

Listen to “Borders not Boundaries“