Birds and Batteries’ Up To No Good (2009) jolts you awake with an electric current visibly coursing through amps and wires. Pulsing and throbbing, synthesized tones supply power to this dark, foreboding, and stormy world. In "The Villain", these pixellated dangers lurk inside an arcade of electric guitar riffs that float above impatient beats. By "Lightning" the cacophony of synthesizers collide and careen, and the momentary flashes of human warmth must brave their way through this wildly crashing struggle.
In contrast, the first single off Birds and Batteries’ upcoming release Panorama finds the world restored to peaceful order. The opening organ and guitar tones gently wake our home-bound hero from the darkness in "Strange Kind of Mirror". With steady rhythms, the bass and drums carry him along a rickety railway through a warped countryside: a place that perpetually skims the edge of autumn. The open fields curve into October’s copper-flecked piano tones. As apple juice drips from a slide guitar, brown eyes flash a warm amber melody in the four o’clock sun.