NEW YORK (Daylight's For The Birds Website) - The members of Daylight's For The Birds are used to staying up all night and hearing the birds tweet right before the sun touches the Earth's pitch black horizon. And they've created the perfect soundtrack for it. Songs from the band's upcoming debut album Trouble Everywhere have already been played over 5,000 times via their MySpace page, and the web is already buzzing with advance praise from tastemakers like Pitchfork, Chromewaves, and Gorilla Vs. Bear.
But Daylight's For The Birds didn't just drop from the sky to such a warm reception. The band is actually the latest project from members of another beloved, but short lived indie sensation, On!Air!Library. On!Air!Library's 2004 debut album received glowing notices from The New York Times to Jane, Nylon, Flaunt and others. And then the band went away.
During that break-up in the summer of 2005, On!Air!Library's Philip Wann happened to be writing a tune called "Daylight's for the Birds". Wann invited On!Air!Library roadie and touring bassist Jay Giampietro to work on the music with him in his Manhattan basement apartment. It was good.
Instead of coming up with a new name for this new band, Wann and Giampietro decided to name themselves after that first tune, especially since in making it they had let the midnight oil burn. This method of creating music together further inspired the duo to create a soundtrack to the late night/early morning. Furthermore, the uncertainty of starting from scratch gave the music the two were churning out a sense of emotional immediacy and intensity that refined and transcended the inventive experimental rock that On!Air!Library was praised for.
After months of marathon songwriting sessions and too many 12-hour jams ending at sunrise (much to the chagrin of Wann's neighbors and roommates), Daylight's For The Birds was ready to make its debut album. Wann and Giampietro recruited ex-Boggs drummer Brad Conroy and former On!Air!Library singer Claudia Deheza, and proceeded to record its first songs with producer Steve Revitte (The Liars, Black Dice, The Double). After initial sessions for Trouble Everywhere began, Daylight's For The Birds recruited an additional singer to compliment Wann and Deheza's vocals.
Something in the universe must have been smiling when newcomer Amanda Garrett arrived, as she quickly became the band's lead singer, taking over vocal duties for Deheza when she chose to bow out of the band to pursue motherhood with boyfriend Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73). The newly reorganized group quickly tested their chops playing several buzzed-about shows in New York with Calla, Prefuse 73, and The Silversun Pickups, and then went on to finish Trouble Everywhere earlier this year with producer Andy Hong. Then they went to bed.
Now, in the morning, Trouble Everywhere is ready for release, and ready to make new fans of this new band while giving the many existing fans of On!Air!Library something to crow about.
