Tweak Bird announce album release date and tracklist…

After completely slaying the UK & Europe on their recent May 2010 tour that saw them call in at The Great Escape, Stag & Dagger and a superb you’ll-claim-you-were there showing at Brixton’s The Windmill, the mighty Tweak Bird announce their debut album for release in August 2010.

“I’m pretty excited about the positivity and heaviness of it,” says Tweak Bird’s drummer Ashton Bird about his band’s self-titled album, “Because we’re happy and we’re playing heavy music. And it doesn’t seem like people are doing that very much.”

Ashton and his brother Caleb make up the Illinois-based duo, sometimes expanded to a three-piece, and even they have trouble explaining whether they fit into any scene. “When we play with heavy bands, in my mind I’m thinking ‘what a great bill!’” says Caleb, the older of the pair, “But we’re not that heavy. Play with a pop band and I’m all ‘hey, they write pop songs like us’.”

‘Tweak Bird’, produced by regular collaborators Deaf Nephews’ Dale Crover and Toshi Yasai of the Melvins, who also worked on 2008’s mini-album Reservations, features beats as tough as the Birds’ fraternal harmonies are ethereal. Recorded in less than a week, the record regularly returns to themes of space travel and escape, the raucous astral optimism of ‘Lights In Line’ and ‘Sky Ride’ evocative of lost sixties psychedelic dreamers like KAK and Population II.

“For the last year we were touring, and it was inspired by moving round a lot" concedes Caleb. Another influence is less obvious. “I was listening to a lot of T Rex,” he confesses, “I love Marc Bolan’s songwriting technique- pretty much a guitar groove with weird little ditties on top. Pop music at its purest.”

Tracklist:

01 The Future
02 Lights In Lines
03 Round Trippin’
04 A Sun / Ahh Ahh
05 Beyond
06 Tunneling Through
07 Sky Ride
08 Hazement In The
Basement
09 Flyin’ High
10 Distant Airways