Ball of Wax 36 Songs: Town Forest – “He Speak Bird”

Town Forest brings the foreboding and midnight clang with “He Speak Bird.” Driven by an eerie guitar vamp, evoking a Goblin riff played through a fuzzy Fender Twin, “He Speak Bird” stalks and hovers like some sort of rural Bauhaus or haunted My Morning Jacket. The arrangement is simple, repetitive, and completely effective, marked by stabs of yearning vocals and spans of intricate drumming.  The vocal performance is pretty great, even though the echo-ey yowls obscure pretty much all of the lyrics. Nevertheless, this is good stuff. I’m looking forward to hearing more from Town Forest when they play the Volume 36 release show on June 7th.