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'Basement Birds' Basement Birds

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Aug 20, 2010 Updated Aug 20, 2010

This week's feature is the debut disc from Australia's home-grown supergroup.

Eskimo Joe's Kav Temperley, Kevin (Bob Evans) Mitchell, Steve Parkin and Josh Pyke bring their individual recipes to the musical picnic table.

Track List:

01 - Waiting For You
02 - Bus Stop
03 - Not The One
04 - Holly
05 - Skin Of The Sky
06 - Ghosts
07 - Hamilton Hill
08 - Hardest Part
09 - Reasons
10 - Heartache On The Radio
11 - All That I Feel
12 - Cinnamon & Smoke
13 - Waterlines

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Basement Birds shines with its rich instrumentation; the four bring together very different sounds to create something wholly new that at the same time any fan of the four should easily embrace.

(Richard Wilson, Soulshine)

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Basement Birds is an Australian indie group composed of Kavyen Temperley (Eskimo Joe's frontman and bassist), Steve Parkin (solo singer/songwriter), Kevin Mitchell (Jebediah, aka Bob Evans) and solo singer/songwriter Josh Pyke. The groups' mutual love of lush vocal harmonies and alt-country style was the basis for forming the Basement Birds project. Influences cited by the band include Crosby,...

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