Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
$12USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
If you are financially burdened and would like this vinyl, send us a message and we will mail you a FREE record (minus cost of shipping)
If you are local, come to a show and let us know and we will hook you up.
Includes unlimited streaming of Every Bird Ever
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
The challenges of our generation feel amplified and the lines of reality and hyperbole are beyond blurred. So many things feel out of reach. Will I find love, will I find a home, will I die before I’m ready? This is an album that attempts to capture the feeling of confronting impossibility with reckless optimism. Embracing sadness, imperfection, and joy equally.
This is the second record by Brooklyn based ILITHIOS (idiot in Greek). The significance of birds, which appear throughout the record in field recordings, artwork, and lyrics, is their symbolism as free beings, bringers of luck, healing, but also as tragic figures. Magpies in some cultures are revered, whereas in others they are a nuisance, or pest… and therefore exterminated. Other birds are misunderstood, the Coucal builds nests with grasses believed to have medicinal qualities.. So people will go to the nests, break the legs of the nestlings in order to get the parent Coucal to bring this supposed medicinal grass to be harvested and sold. By giving meaning to nature, we both mytholigize birds, and devastate them. If you examine birds enough.. as with any object, person, or animal, you can find the parallels to our own lives. But not cats, they make no sense.
The record includes many guests from the New York City music scene to give different voices and life to the songs
credits
released April 16, 2024
Produced by JEFF BERNER and ILITHIOS
Engineered and Mixed by JEFF BERNER
Mastered by CARL SAFF
Recorded at Studio G Brooklyn and Cavebird
Ilithios is MANNY NOMIKOS and his band consisting of
ANA BECKER - guitars / vocals
JUSTIN GONZALEZ - guitars
JULIE ROZANSKY - bass / vocals
DON LAVIS - drums
The players on the record also include
ROSIE SLATER (New Myths, Thick, Catty) - drums
BENJI REYNOLDS - drums
STEPHANIE GUNTHER (Desert Sharks) - vocals
PATRICK PORTER (A Very Special Episode) - guitar
KASEY HEISLER (A Very Special Episode) - vocals
ALLISON LANGERAK - vocals
GAVIN DUNAWAY (Libel) - guitar
JEFF BERNER - guitar / synths/ vocals/ percussion
NICK LAFALCE - drums / saxophone
Dreamy, intricate guitar pop from Oakland's Absent City; splashes of accordion, sitar, lap steel, and mandolin add textural richness. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 26, 2020
Pretty avant-pop with simple instrumentation and gentle bite from New York's Garcon No.1 cleverly subverts the torch song. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 13, 2020