Seer BIRDSTONE

• 1 Seer 02:34
• 2 Salazar 07:12
• 3 Exodus 04:33
• 4 Ritual 09:42
• 5 Beast 09:30
• 6 Crows 04:07
• 7 Alquézar 07:19
• Total Runtime 44:57

Info for Seer

After a first EP, The Cage, released in 2017, Birdstone comes back to mark the beginning of the year with their first album, Seer, with 7 tracks including a new version of "Alquézar" already present on their previous EP. The trio has been working hard since its formation in 2015.

Birdstone is not a band on which one can easily stick a label. The trio from Bressuire, not far from Poitiers, delivers a music at the crossroads of blues and psychedelic rock, and takes a (shared) malicious pleasure in wandering us between the clear tones of an airy blues as "Beast" can testify, The album's fourth track, "Beast", and the overpowering groove riffs that sometimes come close to stoner, I dare you not to (at least) move your head while listening to the massive "Exodus" and "Ritual". There's also something of a progressive rock feel to it, especially on 'Ritual' and 'Beast', both of which approach 10 minutes.

Birdstone's sound is organic, quite vintage in its musical influences and its distortion tinged with fuzz, and the choice to have their album mastered by Noel Summerville at the 3345 Mastering studio, located in London, is certainly not for nothing, we're talking about a professional who has worked with The Clash, The White Stripes, or The Waterboys, among others. Self-defined as a "Mystic Rock/Ritual Blues" band, we'll find throughout Seer very atmospheric passages, a tension that sometimes has something disturbing about it, a musical aesthetic that corresponds very well to the narrative themes tackled throughout the album.

Seer, which means seer or prophet, tells the story of an initiatory journey, of a human experience marked by spirituality and esotericism. From the first a capella track bearing the name of the album, ''Seer'', to the last one, ''Alquézar'' (for which a video clip was shot, to be found at the end of the article), our seer goes through many states and feelings to which Man can be exposed in the course of his life, the listener will witness his tug-of-war, his questioning and internal conflicts, his meeting with his guru to finally arrive at his downfall, because one never ends better than on a positive note...

In 7 tracks, 44 minutes and 58 seconds to be exact, Seer demonstrates an original and accomplished style, because if the three members of the band only officially formed around Birdstone in 2015, the Bressurais have known each other for long enough (a good decade all the same) to know how to converge the various influences that have built the musical identity of each one towards a rich and coherent whole.

All in all, this very successful first album is a great demonstration of Birdstone's potential and a beautiful dive into their musical universe, with a real beginning, a real conclusion, and a great journey in between. We'll be following closely the evolution of the band who, with Seer, opens a path on which we hope to wander for a long time.

Basile Chevalier-Coudrain, guitar, lead vocals, tremolo
Edwige Thirion, bass, vocals, Leslie
Léo Gaufreteau, drums, vocals, Metallophone, Hammond

Recorded live at Midilive Studio in March 2018
Recorded by Jean-Baptiste Deucher
Mixed by Jean-Baptiste Deucher
Mastered by Noel Summerville from 3345 Mastering, London

Birdstone
was born with a furious desire to merge the spiritual power of the Blues with the musical richness of the psychedelic rock. At the crossroads of mythological themes, esotericism and simple human passions, the universe of the trio narrates the inner struggles of Man as well as his mystical aspirations.

This album contains no booklet.