State Bird: Mostly Ghostly Pre-order and more press
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
