Thank Grohl this doesn’t suck because I love the presentation of Bird Names’ Naming Names: 105 copies, of which all are posted on the Bird Names site and available for the plucking. They look good too, honey-baby-mama, and the music therein is a wonderfully chaotic mix of hamhanded psych, spindly lofi indie, and outsider pop. It goes on forever too, never yielding a single piece of scabby fruit. Elephant 6, Happy Jawbone Family Band, Tonstartssbandht, fellow Vermont vermin Blanche Blanche Blanche, early Of Montreal, Avey Tare maybe, if you’re feeling lucky… get a potpourri going with those and huff the shit out of them while you stare at the colorful paintings on the cover. Then break your guitar to splinters and burn it because if there are bands this good in the deeeeeep underground your little vanity project isn’t going to mean dick. That Naming Names was recorded in Athens, Ga., is the final straw: Someone sign these fuckin’ guys or I’ll do it myself. A lot of people labor over ambitious, indulgent works like this and come out sounding as appealing as a grandma goat’s vagina, so when a lofty peak is reached in this area not paying attention is not an option. I sat on this one for a long time and paid the price; don’t make the same mistake I made, brothers.
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