Daily Doses: tHE BIRD DAY “Five Fingers” From Collect Vibrations (2010)

Before I go on, I think it’s important to point out a couple things:

A: As you may have noticed, the music on the DIY has started reaching a broader audience due to services like Bandcamp, wide spread blog support, and primarily the hard work and dedication of the artists themselves. However, most of these artists don’t usually release full albums. Most of the focus is on singles and E.P’s due to their faster release rate. 

B: This method of releasing is fantastic for blogs, giving us amazing new material at a constant rate. However, it’s also created a pretty large disparity between my favorite songs of the year and my favorite albums of the year.

There are some exceptions to that. For example Coma Cinema’s Stoned Alone is an amazing full length release. But as a whole, it’s an unfortunate fact that while the music a lot of the artists I feature get a decent amount of attention on the song focused blog front, on the album review front it’s a waste land.

Which is is why it was such a pleasure to get this full length from New York’s tHE BIRD DAY. As thankfully it has corrected some of that disparity by sliding directly into my top 10 of 2010.

 Consisting primarily of beat heavy party tracks covered in choral vocals and some well placed chopped samples, Collect Vibrations is one of those rare albums where each song not only works well as a single, but also comes together perfectly as a full length release. Heavy hitters like the previously released singles “Gonna Beg You”, “Feel The Waves” and “You Will Understand” all slide perfectly into their place on the album with new comers like the amazing album closer “Five Fingers”.

Synopsis: First download this album. Then hide your kids, hide your wives, and hide your husbands too, because tHE BIRD DAY is killin’ everything up in here.

Download The Bird Day’s Debut Full Length Collect Vibrations

Download The Bird Day’s “Five Fingers” From Collect Vibrations