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Artist
Norwegian Arms
12+ albums
freak folkfolkpsych folkindieMellow
about
Three years, two EPs and one album since his Siberian sojourn, Keith Birthday of Norwegian Arms has turned his focus away from the confines of his tiny apartment in the Taiga which largely informed the songs on Wolf Like a Stray Dog. That doesn't mean that the sunny folk music generated by his time in Tomsk, Russia has become any less relevant, or that the sound has changed drastically. Instead, it's morphed from real-time cultural awe and suffering to nostalgia, and while the memories remain, new ones have taken their place. That being said, nothing has, or perhaps ever will, replace the childhood mandolin on which these songs are written, perhaps the only constant in this ever-evolving project. In the time since returning to his native Philadelphia, Birthday has found new beauty in the wreckage that surrounds his post-industrial warehouse apartment. Dilapidated buildings, shifting friendships, and late night bicycle rides inform this new batch of songs, a celebration of deeper personal understanding. Still deeply influenced by his continued travels, these new songs draw from trips to South America and Europe, and the sense of Wanderlust remains. Still obsessed with languages and their systems, Birthday refers to these new songs as imperfective, referring to verb 'aspect' present in Slavic languages, which focuses on the current process, not a past event or a future result. He still feels strongly that it's about the journey, not the destination. They released their debut
top songs
1
And then I Found Myself in the Taiga
4,0512Wolf Like a Stray Dog
2,2633Run! Ran! Run! Rah!
2,2424She Lives in a Secret Town
2,1225At the Formerly British Council Supported English Centre
1,7846Soviet Bicycle
1,5407How We Move
1,5268Tired of Being Cold
1,4529My New Toy Piano
1,36710Proof of an Art Object
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