Winter Pattern artwork

Bird Songs

Something//Something

Winter Pattern (7/30/2015)

Lyrics

(please don't bother me I'm not alone)

About Bird Songs

Bird Songs is the opening track on Winter Pattern, which is the debut album by Something//Something. We had no idea what we were doing. It's just meant to be an overture to the album.

We were definitely really into Emaj7 chords at the time. And also Erik Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1.

A fun fact about this album is that the entire first side was recorded live at John and Kevin's house. Andrew had uploaded it to YouTube at one point - I tried finding the video - but no luck. If you find it, let me know!

Listening back 10 years later now, it's not too cringy. It captures what we were going for at the time. Sort of a moody indie rock vibe with some experimental touches.

Trent Larrabee performing a song from Winter Pattern with Something//Something at Modern Gypsy in Manchester, New Hampshire — This is what we looked like at an early performance at Modern Gypsy on Chestnut St in Manchester, NH. Photo by Justin Chadbourne. Circa, like, 2015?

It actually does medly nicely into the next track, Take 4, which is quite a bit more upbeat. And the reprise of Bird Songs is most definitely a nod to the Breathe reprise on Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, an album I will forever be fond of.

Credits

Written by Trent Larrabee , Composed by Trent Larrabee