MP3: "There Is A Marriage" via The FADER
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Recording as Bird By Snow, Fletcher Tucker has been releasing deep, genre-refracting sounds for the past five years with his output varying from dreamy drones to eccentric lo-fi pop to mountainous dub. His latest effort Common Wealth finds Tucker masterfully refining his songcraft with powerful arrangements, graceful melodies, and moving poetic imagery. Today, The FADER premieres one of the upcoming album's many highlights "There Is A Marriage".

The songs on Common Wealth feel harvested (rather than written) from somewhere ancient, mysterious, and otherworldly. Recorded with Tim Green and arranged in collaboration with percussionist Spencer Owen, the album embraces the West African and dub influences hinted at on Bird By Snow's previous work. Both shimmering and shadowy, the gorgeous psych-pop on Common Wealth explores moments where friendship, the wild, love, primitive practice, community, and the broader literatures of the present moment make the heat haze of separation look less convincing. On a simpler level, this album is about feeling the good flow.

"'There is a Marriage' succeeds on atmosphere. This voice paired with tip-toeing guitar line and the soft hiss of empty space is basically what it feels like to hole up in a warm wood cabin for awhile. If you want to get nerdy, there are echoes of the way Phil Elverum sings from his throat-intimate and softly bubbling, but cleaner. Less cracks and more foggy smoothness." The FADER

"..dramatic vocals, widescreen pop, the naturalist movement, apocalyptic overtones, and general eccentricity." Dusted Magazine

"Exploring personal and universal identities with an understated, yet sometimes quite grand grace and organically natural ease, almost like these songs sound like they just happened rather than being crafted and created." Dream Magazine

Place is important. BIRD BY SNOW was formed in the weather, wild, and little towns of Northern California. Cold water, dark woods. Fog in the branches, sunlight through a Pelican-wing. Abundance in all directions. This is the place that has informed the aesthetic of the whole lo-fi, Pacific Northwest Indie Scene. Bird By Snow can be seen there too, but not limited to one view, instead at home in the limitless, expanding west. --- You'll find genres bent as if light through a prism. Song-craft as ritual, where themes of primitivism, pagan meditations, and transcendent dronings breathe deeply. Only one constant member: words, tunes, recording and much playing by Fletcher Tucker.

Common Wealth is Bird By Snow's fourth long-player, engineered by the mighty Tim Green (Wolves In The Throne Room, Citay, Daniel Higgs, Fucking Champs). The first release not recorded at home, Tucker and collaborator Spencer Owen took full advantage of the 24-track studio to birth a wilderness of songs, a new ecosystem of lush arrangements.

Bird By Snow has been performing and recording since 2005; regularly traveling the US and Europe on seven tours (so far), sometimes performing solo, sometimes with a band, and occasioning to share the stage with many lovely people along the way... Mt. Eerie, Julie Doiron, Ariel Pink, Daniel Higgs, Wildbirds & Peacedrums and many more. In addition to the handsome tours Bird By Snow has performed at a handful of international festivals including several (((Folkyeah!))) happenings and festivals in Big Sur California, The Festival of Endless Gratitude (2009) in Copenhagen Denmark, and (most notably) at the auspicious Tanned Tin Festival (2007) in Castellón Spain, alongside new giants like the Sea and Cake, Deerhoof, and the Dirty Projectors.