Bird & The Bee Sides

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555738927X 9785557389273 093624983866Amazon.com If anyone had any doubts as to Relient K's staying power and diversity, this very lengthy collection of remixed songs, out-takes, EP tunes and just plain oddities ought to dispel them twice over. These 26 tunes run through gentle folk, rousing alt-rock, twanging alt-country, and even whimsical ska. The fact that some songs mention other bands -- Jefferson Airplane, Blood Sweat and Tears -- helps to make this sound like a compilation of various artists on first run-through. And while "At Least We Made It This Far" sounds like Death Cab For Cutie if Ben Gibbard could only stop being such a mope, the intense numbers like "The Last, The Lost, The Least" could be by no one else. The group's highly inventive, relentlessly (and restless) brand of alt-pop is what anchors all these songs. And with each successive listen, it becomes clear that what at first sounds like some crazy grab-bag might actually be one of their best albums to date.--Mike McGonigal Product Description The Bird and the Bee Sides begins with a baker s dozen of original new tunes collected under the moniker of The Nashville Tennis EP. With all five members writing and taking turns on lead vocals, it's perhaps Relient K's most diverse effort to date, including Thiessen's alt-country At Least We Made It This Far, bassist John Warne s The Last, The Lost, The Least, which is explosive both sonically and in its social commentary, and new drummer Ethan Luck s punk rock reggae No Reaction, to name but a few highlights. As for the Bee Sides Relient K remixed and re-mastered 13 tracks, including an acoustic version of hit single Who I Am Hates Who I ve Been . There are also tunes from The Vinyl Countdown, The Employee Of The Month EP, The Creepy EP, The Apathetic EP and, as Thiessen puts it, a ton of other stuff that you can t even find on the internet at least not yet.

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