Music is a funny thing. It stays with you for all your life, enduring the highs and lows of human experience, sometimes leaving you for a period, but then coming back in full force. For SRVR, music has been a life-long endeavour, together with their love for David Bowie. After their last band failed (coincidentally thanks to a David Bowie-related issue), Londoners Sidney Rivers and Vincent Rouge took matters into their own hands, working as a duo to build SRVR and its slightly psych-pop aesthetics. ‘Birdman’ is their debut effort, almost four minutes of luscious guitars, vocal chants and sleazy drums. Honestly, it is really good, and if their initial record is that good, we can only expect bigger things going further.
There is a bit of everything in ‘Birdman’. Blues-flavoured guitars graze the track from start to finish, joining slow-paced piano accents and tribal-like vocal harmonies into an exciting sound concoction. This is blues-pop, with a certain rock attitude. Or, better put, it all serves Rouge’s vocals and the pair’s intense lyricism, taking advantage of repetition and a charming free-form aesthetic.
SRVR describes the record as inspired by current events: “It was written in response to recent political events in the U.S including the Capitol riots”. Through metaphorical lyricism and witty wording, the group manages to write music that lives and breathes the contemporary, although anchored in past musical influences.
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