Music For Dead Birds – And Then It Rained For Seven Days

Music for Dead Birds are an Irish band with a name inspired by an encounter with a deceased duck on a sidewalk. If you are a fan of the morbid, the image is up on the band’s MySpace page.
 
What Music for Dead Birds are trying to do is channel as many different styles of music as possible into one album. They’re a new band but already have an admirable number of listeners on one popular online music site. Those listeners have tagged them as punk, pop, folk, experimental, and acoustic. A bit incongruous – but true.
 
The first song is ‘17′ and it starts the album off with the Beatlesque declaration ‘She was seventeen!’ Several first-track reviews are prone to include a note along the lines of “it sets the tone for the rest of the album.” But it should be made perfectly clear that ‘17′ sounds nothing like the rest of the album. This is their ‘punk, pop’ bit. You brace yourself for the next song – ‘What did you expect?’ Certainly not this – it barely sounds like the band you heard 3 seconds ago. It’s much mellower and its lyrics are not nearly as frivolous as its predecessor’s. The line ‘I’m lying on the carpet, baby/looking like a pile of bones’ tends to stay in your head, probably because of its partnership with the slow yet sticky guitar and drumbeat. Singer Jimmy Monaghan’s voice bears an ever so slight resemblance to Brian Molko’s, only more agreeable.
 
‘Pill, Oh’ sounds like a lullaby and with all this talk of falling asleep into the deep and being asked to come with him, it is perfect to drowse to. Just make sure you don’t have the album on shuffle in case Track 1 comes on next. ‘The Sex’ – is an attractive, melodic number while ‘To Grow Up Wet’ accounts for the ‘acoustic’ tag. As for experimental, that’s catered to by the last track which features the sinister opening monologue advising us to head to the country or the sea so as to avoid certain death.
 
“And Then It Rained For Seven Days sounds raw, nearly amateurish – it wasn’t recorded professionally so it doesn’t have any polish or gloss. It’s just a couple of blokes making music wherever they can. It’s refreshing and natural, for sure. But do they have the potential to make it big? That’s hard to say – they are definitely good at being versatile, but instead of reflecting other bands, perhaps it wouldn’t be a bad idea if they developed a sound of their own.

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