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“…the
swirl and throb of a
happy Joy Division.”
- David Fricke,
Rolling
Stone Magazine
“…blends
psychedelic
forms that echo Pink
Floyd and the Doors,
with songs built
on organ
riffs and droning guitars."
- New York Times
“Citizen Bird….
World rejoices.”
- Entertainment Weekly
“…kind
of like The Strokes
if they took a whole lot
of acid.”
- New Musical
Express
"A
sweet haze….”
- New York Post
“…the
moody, organ-fueled
Citizen Bird are the
Doors after taking a
moonlight
drive near
the fjords.”
- Entertainment Weekly
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Gothenburg, Sweden. With incendiary live shows, marked by rightful heir to the Lizard King mantle Simon Ohlsson’s eruptive on-stage performances, Citizen Bird soon began to draw a large live following. The band’s debut album, “Silverbullet”, released in 1997 on Swedish indie label Fine Tone Recordings, marries an art rock-cum-proto-punk New York sensibility with the manically dangerous energy of Detroit rockers The Stooges and MC5. Garnering critical acclaim for their debut album, Citizen Bird toured extensively throughout Northern Europe following its release. As the band’s interest in electronica began to grow, they sought to evolve their percussion beyond more traditional rock-oriented rhythmic elements. Thus began a search for the perfect drummer, culminating in the addition of prominent Swedish percussionist Anders Gustafsson to the band, then already consisting of guitarist Andreas Nilsson, bassist Jukka Rintamaki and keyboardist Jon Olmeskog. The band then proceeded to complete their album “Citizen Bird”. Recorded in two different studios in Sweden, the eponymously-titled album is an ambitious brew of punk, psychedelia, and classic rock elements -- a sort of hybrid of The Stooges, Suicide, Pink Floyd, Neu, Spacemen Three and Joy Division -- albeit with a completely unique and contemporary perspective. After a busy 2001, spent touring throughout the UK and Europe, the band set out to make its mark in the US. Following a US mini-tour by the band, featuring several standing room only shows in New York and at the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, New York-based indie label Stinky Records released the album "Citizen Bird" in Spring 2002, complete with a new bonus track, not included on the European version of the album, entitled "Dance With Me". Ranging from the "we-want-it-all-and-we-want-it-now" intensity of "Joy", to the haunting polemic "Money", to the manic, organ-fueled pop thrill of “Magnetic City”, to the achingly beautiful duet "Axe Man", sung by Citizen Bird bassist Jukka Rintamaki with the accompaniment of Karen Dreijer of The Knife, to the epic romanticism of "Star", the album "Citizen Bird" is a brooding, tense and complex work. |
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