Ears Wide Open: KG Bird

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The best thing about KG Bird’s folk music is how it doesn’t settle for just being folk music. The sextet – anchored by former Cue the Moon bandmates Chris and Tim James and Ryan Parmenter – can play aching balladeers one moment and tortured indie-rockers deftly playing the loud/soft dynamic the next. Their debut EP “Morning Weather” shifts from moody and dark to brash and furious seemingly at the drop of a Will Nicoll guitar riff, and expansive song structures treat predictability like the plague. Drummer Matt Moss and keyboardist Aya Kawaguchi round out the six-piece, who are offering their EP on Bandcamp on a name-your-price basis.

||| Download: “Pull the Mask Off” and “Suffer Tiny Whales”

||| Live: KG Bird plays Friday night along with Bikos at Taix. They also have a June residency at the Silverlake Lounge.

Photo by Robby Mueller