apologies, for losing my cool

a certain vintage never gets old

How did the duo from Bird And The Bee meet? well according to allmusic they met one day by accident when sweet eyed Inara George needed a pianist for an album she was working on. A friend started to call in contacts, and in walked Greg Kurstin.

You know how sometimes, in very rare moments of time, you meet a person who shares so much so with you, be it poetry or chainsaws ( who knows?), that for the next two hours both of you can do nothing but talk and amaze each other?

Well it was like that between Inara and Greg, just that it was all exchanged in music. and as quoted from their myspace:" nerded out for a couple of hours playing every song they knew.. and then wrote and recorded a record together."

It is always the things that you dont expect that bears the most surprising fruit, that I always never fail to continue to discover. A bit of initiative on your own part cant be lacking too of course. The Smiths would never have formed if Morrissey did not one day decided to go up to Johnny Marr's door and knock just like that.

Anyway the Bird and the Bee would probably fall somewhere into indie electronic/pop ( which im so much more comfortable with than the headbanging type). So if youre a fan of frou frou/ sia/ feist/ psapp/ ivy and the like you probably already have a sort of idea. Just a couple mornings back I managed to sneak The Bird And The Bee onto the shopfloor's airplay and this girl suddenly asks me whether that was Lily Allen playing, I never really thought of both them the same way, but I guess you can call them similar if you are really so inclined to with the quirky and stylized electronic beats.

The album and EP are really starting to grow on me as the year draws to an end. It's not too heavy nor pensive, neither is it too light and sugar sweet. Furthermore a fair amount of the songs are solid gems, far too many for me to post up here but are terribly memorable nonetheless. It kinda captures the ' indie sound' well ( whatever that means), a particular blend of laid back intensity that is really very attractive to be around and with.

Be sure to check them out on their myspace for more of their songs, and feel free to ask me online for more of their stuff.

The Bird And The Bee - Polite Dance Song

and yeh, im definitely saving up for when they come to Singapore some early next year. Them and feist. Perhaps KT tunstall too if I have enough to spare.