Filthybird signs to Holidays for Quince Records April 2010
Holidays for Quince is proud to announce a partnership with cosmic American combo Filthybird. The four-piece ensemble has had an busy year, migrating from Greensboro NC to the Triangle, opening a guitar repair shop in downtown Graham (Fret Sounds), and putting the finishing touches on a brilliant new full-length record, Songs for Other People. The follow-up to the lauded Southern Skies, Filthybird's latest record reveals an astounding depth, effectively marrying the lilting vocal melodies of Renee Mendoza (Ashrae Fax) to Brian Haran's (Glenn Branca Orchestra, LaMonte Young projects, Viridian) layered guitar atmospherics. Anchored by a powerfully inventive rhythm section, these songs are both soulful and dreamy, familiar and fresh. Lush, breezy and cinematic arrangements may recall the best moments of Gram Parsons, Jefferson Airplane, and Brian Wilson, but this band is unique, reassembling the most colorful fragments of a mythic American music into something entirely new.
“These guys are kind of a cosmic americana western eastern totem spirit animal.”
- The Folks from the Pinhook
"Filthybird are from Greensboro but half of 'em just moved to the greater Alamance/Chatham area, and are opening a guitar shop in downtown Graham, god bless em. They make beautiful crazy psychedelic artpop.”
-TriangleRock
“Filthybird is the must-see. From the sound of Brian Haran's guitar to the wounded songbird quality of Renee Mendoza's voice, this band's perfected its supple tone and is now attaching it to mesmerizing tunes.”
-Grayson Currin, Independent Weekly
Music Worth Leaving The House For (2007)
Independent Weekly, Chapel Hill
"There's a rich swirl of New South mystique hidden in Greensboro's Filthybird, especially through frontwoman Renee Mendoza. Her songwriting—a collagist's reflection on the toils of love and life—proclaims a naiveté rung through resilience and tenacity. "I was born a bird/ A bird I will die," she sings on the perfect, "The Gospel as Judas Told it to Me," her rangy, romantic voice carrying that charge above a band capable of the same lull and lift. Filthybird moans in textural splendor until they climb into big, clanging rock crescendos, free and emphatic and strong. The band's debut, Southern Skies, is one of the best 10 records you'll hear from this state all year, guaranteed."
—Grayson Currin
Indie Concert Guide
Independent Weekly, Chapel Hill
"Led by one of the most alluring voices in indie rock, Greensboro's Filthybird landed a winner with their Southern Skies debut earlier this year. At Filthybird's core is the staid, neat songcraft of Renee Mendoza, but the band bends it into fiery, rangy textures."
-Grayson Currin
"Listen to what the band offers, and try not to love this music. It is warm and resonant and will drip inside you long after the speakers have gone quiet. Once you've been dazzled, come see them play, somewhere, anywhere."
-Patrick Egan (Go Triad)
"Filthybird are from Greensboro, and the one song I've heard is weird and modulated & ethereal, like Joni Mitchell in her Jaco Pastorius period, dropping acid with Jaco and then kinda free-associating into the mic. Or rather, like that if the end-result wound up genius, which seems unlikely, but in this case true."
-Triangle Rock
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