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The Bird And The Bee’s Recreational Love Coming
The Bird and the Bee Announce Fourth Album Recreational Love
Premiere Music Video for “Will You Dance?” via Funny or Die
Los Angeles + New York Live Dates
Los Angeles-based duo The Bird and the Bee are releasing their fourth album Recreational Love on Friday, July 17th. The band premiered their video for “Will You Dance?” via Funny or Die. PRESS HERE to watch the music video which features comedian Patton Oswalt and The Big Bang Theory’s Simon Helberg.
The band, who are performing two sold out shows at Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever in May, have added an additional show at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles on July 12th. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 8th at 10am PT. They will also host a special album release show in New York City on July 17th at Webster Hall. Tickets for NYC go on sale on May 6th at 12pm ET. All tour dates below.
Recreational Love came to life over a half-decade of songwriting and recording. “We didn’t mean to take so long but life ended up getting in the way, in a great way,” says vocalist Inara George, who formed the duo with multi-instrumentalist Greg Kurstin in 2005. In the midst of pursuing other projects — George also sings in the indie-folk supergroup the Living Sisters, Kurstin’s a Grammy Award-nominated producer who’s recently worked with Sia, Lykke Li, and Charli XCX — the two met most Friday mornings at Kurstin’s studio to dream up their latest batch of finely textured retro-pop. With a hint of R&B adding some warm grooves this time around, Recreational Love captures the easy intimacy of their collaboration and lets listeners slip into the band’s own charmed and secret world.
Though it’s The Bird and the Bee’s first album of original material since Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future (a 2009 release that the A.V. Club praised for its “exploration of carefree, happy-making music”), Recreational Love perhaps more closely follows their 2010 album Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates. At turns sophisticated and sweetly off-kilter, dreamlike and dance-ready, the forthcoming album strips away the densely layered sound of The Bird and the Bee’s earlier efforts to let their silky-smooth melodies shine through.
Tour Dates
May 11 Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (SOLD OUT)
May 12 Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (SOLD OUT)
July 12 Los Angeles, CA @ Theatre at Ace Hotel
July 17 New York, NY @ Webster Hall
http://www.thebirdandthebee.com