Kevin Bronson on May 21st, 2016

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Bird Concerns make art-pop for sophisticated palates, with intricate arrangements and rhythms setting the tone for their reflective, literate confessionals. They’re a band who could slip in the side door of a jazz club, or open for folks like Beirut, Okkervil River or Local Natives. The quintet features four vocalists — guitarists Travis Meador and Jake Sucher, bassist Marcus Buser and drummer Cooper Wolken — along with trumpet/synth player Julian Beutel, whose sometimes-mournful horn is very much a part of the conversation on the singles “My Favorite Tree” and “Can You Tell.” Those songs appear on Bird Concerns’ debut full-length, “’Til Morning Comes,” out next week. It’s the follow-up to last year’s self-titled EP, which was highlighted by the wistful “Early Summer Days” and “Casual Sex.” “The world makes me get so small,” they sing in “My Favorite Tree,” but it feels a little bigger having heard Bird Concerns.

||| Stream: “My Favorite Tree” and “Can You Tell”

||| Watch: The Ellie Jameson-directed video for “Casual Sex”

||| Live: Bird Concerns celebrate their album release with a show May 27 at the Hi Hat, joined by Golden Daze, the Electric West and Audiomammal.