Since the band’s inception in 2007, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk’s size has ranged from a stripped-down trio, to being an eight-deep pile of instruments and feedback during their notoriously raucous live shows. Based in Lawrence, Kansas and part of the hyper-inclusive Chomp Womp collective, the band both releases music and tours relentlessly, with a particular passion for self-released material, small labels, DIY venues, and booking shows in neglected American outposts. BBDDM make sonic interpretations of nights spent drinking root beer floats and eating pizza with friends in quiet valleys and dim kitchens on the Kansas plains. The band’s musical output can at once contain somber, peaceful melodies, as well as moments of rudderless and uncontrollable layers of noise, often times within the same song. Playing self-proclaimed ‘dinosaur bedroom rock’, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk have a strong desire to be as different and creatively open from one day to the next as possible. Currently a four-piece, BBDDM has the ability to play louder than necessary in a warehouse or more typical club setting, or at a level more fit for a small bedroom in Indiana.
Baby Birds Do Like to Read:
“…..it’s pestered by frantic percussion, using what sounds like wooden spoons—that makes you want to dance. But it’s still ambient, somehow—but it rocks, too. Weird” – THE STRANGER
“Psych-tinged (sometimes pop and sometimes folk) melodies with a shoegaze accent, occasional noisy interludes and an inclination for ambience never forgetting about late Seventies/early Eighties British new wave.” – BEST KEPT SECRET
“Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk is a phoenix of rad, unabashedly jangly pop juggernauticity ascending from the fetid mediocrity that is the American liberal college town music scene.” – CASSETTE GODS
“Like flying a kite over the Great Plains in your floating bathtub, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk are light-headed, hallucinatory shoegawkers straight outta American indie rock” – IMPOSE
“Part shoegaze, part Sonic Youth immersed in fuzz, part Radiohead in their early days, [Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk] defy expectation, demeanor, grandeur, definition…” – EINSTEIN MUSIC JOURNAL
“[Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk] offers a wash of cluttered, echoing soundscapes, [and] syncopated fits of straight-ahead indie-rockin’…” – THE ONION AV CLUB
“part drone, part psyche folk, part wavvesey lofi, and even a song on their myspace that sounds like a 4 track weezer demo.” – DON’T DIE WONDERING
Mushpot Records is an independent and underground music label, creative, event, catering and publicity agency interested in working with twee, pop, IDM, and lo-fi artists as well as alternative and theme-specific children's music compilations.