The Record Machine

Today is the day we all have been very excited about. State Bird’s Mostly Ghostly is now available for purchase. We posted a few videos in the media section from their fall tour and a live video of them preforming A Voice As Old As Fire acousticly. Also the press just keeps rolling in.

Perfect Porridge:

The frantic call and response, energetic clapping and horn charts make me want to jump on stage and rock out. Unfortunately I’m sitting in a cube with headphones on scaring my neighbors.

Full Review: Here

Jonk Music

Mostly Ghostly presents glorious, full-bodied tracks that swell with a plethora of instrumentation and gospel-like choruses.

Full Review: Here

The Record Machine is proud to welcome Interstates to the label. We are really excited to have them join our family. They are going to be releasing their debut full length in the spring. They will be on tour with Foxhole in May. There are a few rough mixes of songs on their website at www.interstatesmusic.com.

Also welcome to our new website. Enjoy!

Spin.com Band of the Day

Mostly Ghostly presents glorious, full-bodied tracks that swell with a plethora of instrumentation and gospel-like choruses.

Full Article: Here

You can now pre-order the new State Bird cd “Mostly Ghostly” from The Record Machine online store.

They recently recorded 4 songs for My Old Kentucky Blog and Sirius Radio Left of Center. You can download them from here.

The press for Mostly Ghostly keeps on rolling in.

NPR.ORG Second Stage Podcast:

State Bird have matured with an experimental cohesiveness on their new record, Mostly Ghostly.

Podcast: Here

BitWorks Music:

State Bird has given us a real gem, and they leave us with this moral: “don’t go out into the woods–there are bears and wolves waiting to hurt you.”

Full Review: Here

Brooklyn Rocks

As the band uses a mix of non-traditional instruments and each of the songs seems to have some sort of musical surprise, a hypothetical point of comparison may be Devendra Banhart meets Danny Elfman.

Full Review: Here

Cleveland Free Times

In recent years, strange things have been happening in folk music. You have the commune-friendly freak-folk of Devendra Banhart, the Jesus-friendly folk of Sufjan Stevens, and the teen-friendly anti-folk of acts like Kimya Dawson (whose backhanded “hey, don’t kill yourself” approach to folk recently fell upon the ears of the 10 million-plus who’ve seen Juno). But stranger yet, if there’s an act that free-falls right into the center of this big contemporary folk blanket, it’s State Bird, and the duo (Jared Riblet and Coby Hartzler) hails from Dover, Ohio.

Full Review: Here