Why Do Birds Sing?: Vinyl LP Pokey Lafarge and the rock-steady swing of

and the rock-steady swing of drummer Art Taylor

Earth and marks the ambition of that album with the immediacy of the bands earlier albums Is This It 2001 and Room on Fire 2003

"Hive" (with wonderful vocal loop effects) has Clifford revisiting his somewhat limited palette of percussion -- a piece that teeters between beauty and agitation

” Kassirer challenged Ramirez to simultaneously simplify and complicate his songwriting

Why Do Birds Sing?: Vinyl LP Pokey Lafarge and the rock-steady swing ofWhy Do Birds Sing? is the fifth studio album from the textbook American cult band, Violent Femmes. It was their last studio album with original drummer, Victor DeLorenzo. Featuring the fan favourite American Music, which reached No. 2 in the Billboard Modern Rock Chart, as well as a cover of Culture Clubs Do You Really Want To Hurt Me. The momentum of the song [American Music] and the album that spawned it provided a springboard for the band to bona