The Bird and the Bee Announce Album + Watch Video for "Will You Dance?" via Funny or Die

[Carina Contreras]

The Bird and the Bee



Announce Fourth Album Recreational Love



Premiere Music Video for "Will You Dance?" via Funny or Die



Los Angeles + New York Live Dates



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Los Angeles-based duo The Bird and the Bee are releasing their fourth album Recreational Love on Friday, July 17th.  The band premiered their video for "Will You Dance?" via Funny or Die - PRESS HERE<http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/82feb1a79f/the-bird-and-the-bee-will-you-dance-with-simon-helberg-and-patton-oswalt> to watch the music video which features comedian Patton Oswalt and The Big Bang Theory's Simon Helberg.



The band, who are performing two sold out shows at Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever in May, have added an additional show at the Theatre at Ace Hotel<http://axs.com/events/277959/the-bird-and-the-bee-tickets> in Los Angeles on July 12th.  They will also host a special album release show in New York City on July 17th at Webster Hall<http://bit.ly/TBTBNYC>. Tickets go on sale on May 8th.  All tour dates below.



Recreational Love came to life over a half-decade of songwriting and recording. "We didn't mean to take so long but life ended up getting in the way, in a great way," says vocalist Inara George, who formed the duo with multi-instrumentalist Greg Kurstin in 2005. In the midst of pursuing other projects - George also sings in the indie-folk supergroup the Living Sisters, Kurstin's a Grammy Award-nominated producer who's recently worked with Sia, Lykke Li, and Charli XCX - the two met most Friday mornings at Kurstin's studio to dream up their latest batch of finely textured retro-pop. With a hint of R&B adding some warm grooves this time around, Recreational Love captures the easy intimacy of their collaboration and lets listeners slip into the band's own charmed and secret world.



Though it's The Bird and the Bee's first album of original material since Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future (a 2009 release that the A.V. Club praised for its "exploration of carefree, happy-making music"), Recreational Love perhaps more closely follows their 2010 album Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates. At turns sophisticated and sweetly off-kilter, dreamlike and dance-ready, the forthcoming album strips away the densely layered sound of The Bird and the Bee's earlier efforts to let their silky-smooth melodies shine through.



Tour Dates
May 11            Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (SOLD OUT)

May 12            Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (SOLD OUT)
July 12             Los Angeles, CA @ Theatre at Ace Hotel<http://axs.com/events/277959/the-bird-and-the-bee-tickets>
July 17             New York, NY @ Webster Hall<http://bit.ly/TBTBNYC>



Praise for The Bird and the Bee:
"Building crisp pop imbibements that can stand up to several listens is no easy task, but the bird and the bee has found the trick." - Los Angeles Times
"The bird and the bee remain one of the most buzz-worthy acts around... truly irresistible, On the follow-up to their delightful, self-titled debut, the bird and the bee increase the funk quotient a bit, but otherwise stick to their musical blueprint, a psychedelic-sounding mixture of pop and jazz that has become their trademark. And for that, we are thankful. George's demure, syrupy-sweet vocals sound more playful than ever against an even more eclectic musical backdrop by Kurstin." - Associated Press
"Ms. George inhabits a world of immaculate vintage styling and cunning calculation... the group's arsenal reflects a fondness for late-1960s psychedelic pop and Brazilian Tropicalia. Mr. Kurstin accesses those allusions with a wink, mixing in shimmering electronics, atmospheric noise and layer upon layer of Ms. George's breathy vocals." - The New York Times
"There is something undeniably charming about the bird and the bee..." - The Boston Globe
"[the bird and the bee] ticktocks through space and time (tropicalia, cabaret, hand-clapping Harajuka-girl beats) with an urgency... Cheeky modernity hides beneath every glistening throwback." - Entertainment Weekly
"Inara George maintains her ethereality and innocence, even as Greg Kurstin percolates and collages influences for a disorienting amalgam that is pure, lo-fi deliciousness." - American Songwriter

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For more information, contact: Chloe Walsh or Carina Contreras at Press Here Publicity
323-556-9752 or 212-246-2640
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