French experimental punk / hardcore trio BIRDS IN ROW are sonically fearless. Lyrically, theyโre as poetic as they are recusant. And live, theyโre a ruthless force, matching the power of their music with boundless, must-see energy.
Birds In Row have been at the forefront of their genre for a decade and this fall they return with a third and powerful full-length album, Gris Klein โ their most expansive and timely declaration yet. Itโs an amorphous beast of an album: always unpredictable, but never out of character for this creative collective.
Gris Klein is a portrait of a world enduring its most chaotic era in a generation.
Yet throughout, the Birds in Row manifesto is the same as itโs always been: love each other. โWe really want people to know that theyโre not alone, and that they can count on each other.โ
The albumโs lyrics were sculpted over lockdown, when everything felt uncertain, and isolation and depression ran rampant. Birds in Row, fresh off a successful tour with Alcest, were suddenly unable to tour, and were no exception to the epidemic of mental health struggles.
Their new single โNympheasโ, released a few days ago, is โAn ode to those who keep fighting when we don’t have the energy to anymore, or never have had it, especially when facing political issues that are increasingly more visible,โ the band explain.
