Gates of Home, by Sick Sick Birds

Gates of Home

by Sick Sick Birds

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	1.	Pick and Choose 03:40
	2.	Conversation 03:20
	3.	Marietta 02:28
	4.	Spinning Jenny 03:23
	5.	One Town Over 03:24
	6.	Caution Wires 03:06
	7.	(Cross the) Shipping Lanes 02:51
	8.	Olive / Gates of Home 05:45
	9.	New Shoe Leather 03:30
	10.	Scaffold 04:13

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TOX13: Sick Sick Birds - Gates of Home 12" [March 2012]

Baltimore's Sick Sick Birds present us with their second long-player which finds them exploring their history as a band with eleven songs that span their existence and their influences (The Clash, The Pixies, The Smiths, Jawbox...). These songs have more of a sense of urgency compared to some of their more whimsical offerings. The melancholy is still there but it's been imbued with a sense of "you lie in the bed you make". With Bobby Borte on a musical hiatus, Mike Hall has taken up primary song-writing duties and his songs speak of snippets of stories whose characters, for better or worse, have followed their own path and deal with whatever may come as best they can.

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released March 31, 2012

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Firestarter / Toxic Pop Baltimore, Maryland

FIRESTARTER RECORDS
Releasing great hardcore/punk records since 2002 for bands like The Spark, Ruiner, Nux Vomica, Formaldehyde Junkies, Psyched To Die, the Ergs, Pulling Teeth and more.

TOXIC POP RECORDS
"Making pop a threat again."
Started in 2007 as a sister label to Firestarter to indulge our pop desires with releases from Sick Sick Birds, the Ergs, Dead Mechanical, Sundials, Tenement... ... more

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