After garnering critical praise and national buzz from their last album, I'… Read Full Bio ↴After garnering critical praise and national buzz from their last album, I'll Never Sleep Again, Birds & Batteries is gearing up to release an EP called Up To No Good. Best described as a spooky-funky adventure, the EP is heavily influenced by Bowie's "Scary Monsters", John Carpenter films and of course, P-funk. This intriguing new material provides for some of the more climactic moments in the band's live set. In the past two years, B&B has solidified their lineup with Mike Sempert on keys, guitar; Christopher Walsh on guitar; Jill Heinke on bass and synth; and Brian Michelson on drums and these days, everyone is singing. Through persistent touring with this core group, B&B's live show has grown stronger and tighter then ever.

More on the EP. . .
The EP is certainly a new direction for the band, and a step away from the plaintive and lush electro-country of I'll Never Sleep Again. While funkier and more eery, UTNG still demonstrates B&B's detailed attention to song writing, arrangement and production.

The songs from Up To No Good were split off from a full length album, Panorama, which the band plans to release in spring 2010. UTNG explores the more electronic side of the B&B palette, allowing the band to save the more organic material for their next output.

Band leader, Mike Sempert says, "There's a certain freedom that the EP format provides, especially with another full length in the works- a sense that we aren't defining ourselves in any fixed way, and so we can do whatever we want."
The result of that freedom, while playful and somewhat divergent, might be the best thing B&B's done yet.

Be My Girl
Birds & Batteries Lyrics

My best friend kissed the girl I like
My best friend kissed the girl I like
Right before two other guys
Should she be the girl I like?
I really thought se was cool
That she thought that one and one were always two
But she kissed three of my friends
But hey, you guess what?
All my friends they know the song
Everyday they sing along

And it's not bad but after all...
My best friend kissed the girl I like
My best friend kissed the girl I like
Right before two other guys
Should he be my best friend now?
They don't walk in my shoes
But it's okay
I'm not walking in theirs
Now they cannot be my friends
But hey, you guess what?
All my friends they fucked my life
In addition Brovrashgka sucks
Can't see the day to leave this town
My best friend kissed the girl I like
My best friend kissed the girl I like
Right before two other guys
Should she be the girl I like?
My best friend kissed the girl I like
My best friend kissed the girl I like
Right before two other guys
Should he be my best friend now?
Na na narana na na na na
Na na narana na na na na
Na na narana na na na na
Na na narana na na na na
I know you'd do it again
You're the kind to trick your boyfriend
So you can fuck his best friend
I'd be sorry if I was him

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Written by: Pablo Rodríguez

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