ARTIST: The Bird and the Bee
TITLE: The Bird and the Bee
LABEL: Metro Blue/Blue Note Records
GENRE: Pop
BITRATE: 183kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 35m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-01-23
RIP DATE: 2007-01-11

Track List
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1.  Again & Again                    2:45
2.  Birds And The Bees               3:51
3.  Fucking Boyfriend                3:15
4.  I'm A Broken Heart               4:32
5.  La La La                         3:19
6.  My Fair Lady                     3:36
7.  I Hate Camera                    3:04
8.  Because                          3:38
9.  Preparedness                     3:36
10. Spark                            4:08

Release Notes:

As intoxicating as a Brazilian breeze and ironic as a David Lynch night in L.A.,
the Los Angeles duo the Bird and the Bee make a soothingly hip, deliriously cool
blend of pop. Inara George is a breathy singer who channels Astrud Gilberto via
Julee Cruise. Although still little known, she's the daughter of the late Lowell
George of Little Feat, and she already has recordings out with a couple of other
bands. Keyboardist and producer Greg Kurstin has worked with Beck and the
Flaming Lips, among many others, and the duo share a passion for that brand of
art pop along with the more whimsical indie strains of Le Tigre. The album is
overflowing with references from '60s pop harpsichords to girl-group choruses.
You half expect Lesley Gore to come out singing harmony on "I'm a Broken Heart,"
an homage to "It's My Party." A jazz aficionado, Kurstin has put all kinds of
jazzbo touches in here, including some unlikely chord changes and tropicalia
moods. Only "F*cking Boyfriend," with that phrase chanted in the chorus, seems
artlessly out of place on an album that revels in sly innuendo and emotional
ambiguity. --John Diliberto

Made up of vocalist Inara George, who has been aptly referred to as "a modern
day Audrey Hepburn with the voice of an angel," and keyboardist/producer Greg
Kurstin, who has lent his talents to records by Beck, The Flaming Lips, Lily
Allen, Peaches, and many more. The Bird and the Bee take elements of everything
from the Beach Boys to 60's Brazil electronica, spinning them into this
irrepressible collection of ten sunshine-drenched, semi-psychedelic ditties.