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Sometimes, things come to me out of left field, poorly timed, and in the strangest of ways. Sometimes my head isn’t clear when someone asks me to listen to an album, or I’m deep into something else when asked to go see a band. But, for the first time since I took this job, when I was asked to just listen to an album from a band called Bird; I actually stopped what I was doing and listened. “Just tell me what you think,” the voice on the other end of the line said. In the first thirty seconds of the opening track, I realized very quickly that this was something completely different from anything I’d heard before. Of course, like many bands before them, Bird would eventually change their name to who we now know as black kite, and relabel the release as “Bird.” Because of these simple facts and the complex nature of the album, it might be an album that you missed. If you’ve never heard it before, here’s why you should give it a listen, because the footprint that these three songs make on the music world is immense. In under eighteen minutes, black kite creates their own sound and does so in a very tangible and intense fashion; while sounding like something grander than you’d expect to come out of Houston. So, aside from the fact that the three song album features the vocals of Vicki Tippit, and the intense drums of LIMB and By The End Of Tonight’s James Templeton; the blend of sounds on this release are almost of another world. Prior to adding third member birdmagic, t
