Bird-Brains
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| Bird-Brains | ||||
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| Released | June 9, 2009 | |||
| Genre | Lo-fi | |||
| Length | 53:49 | |||
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| Tune-Yards chronology | ||||
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Bird-Brains (stylized as BiRd-BrAiNs[1]) is the debut album by American lo-fi musician Merrill Garbus' project Tune-Yards. It was originally released as a Compact Cassette[2] on Marriage Records on June 9, 2009, and was re-released on August 17 by 4AD as a limited-edition pressing. It was released worldwide on November 16, 2009, with two bonus tracks.
The album was recorded almost exclusively by Garbus on a hand recorder and mixed using Audacity.[3] Speaking to Charlotte Richardson Andrews of The Guardian, she noted her instrumental limitations and how they led to a dependence on percussion: "I had no bass – literally, I didn't own one – so the drums had to be big."[4]
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.3/10[5] |
| Metacritic | 79/100[6] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [7] |
| Drowned in Sound | 8/10[8] |
| The Guardian | [9] |
| The Irish Times | [10] |
| MusicOMH | [11] |
| MSN Music (Consumer Guide) | A[12] |
| Pitchfork | 6.8/10[1] |
| PopMatters | 7/10[13] |
Pitchfork ranked Bird-Brains at number 44 on their list of the top 50 albums of 2009.[14]
