Album Review: Kunzite Soar As “Birds Don’t Fly”
I said it with Marteen, and I repeat it again with Kunzite’s debut Birds Don’t Fly; music is divided. There are those reflecting on sad times, and artist seeking good ones. Kunzite are seeking fun ones, and Birds Don’t Fly (BDF), ironically, soars the duo as music producers/explorers.
Mike Stroud and Justin Agustin have been friends since forever, and their bonds is on proud display through the insanity of BDF. Who else, but your best friend, could tell you that basing your album on spaceships, the Milky Way, and Victor Schauberger, an Austrian born inventor, bird-watcher, and forrest dweller, makes total sense. You pick your friends because they see your madness, and pick your best friend because he or she understands it enough to make it into a beautiful reality. Birds Don’t Fly is vibrant and completely connected in that every song sounds from a different place.
Imagine landing a spaceship in a Saturn forest. As you walk through, every step leads you into another music dimension; where nothing feels tangible despite being solid. “Frog City”, “Vapors”, and “Avalanche” seem like different corners of this planet. They go from chill trap to disco-funkadelia to indie surf-rock. This could be why Kunzite are adamant that they are no genre because they want to be more than a “box”. These multi-instrumentalists are eager to define themselves as cosmic as Music, itself, seems to be. Whether you are looking at stars or watching birds, sounds define our worlds, and bring an emotional life-line to what, otherwise, would be an image.
“10 Blue Rooms”, “Honeycomb”, and “Pressure” really put the landscape in soundscape; as they swim in synth-waves, swing in chorded vines, and kick keys like rocks. Their debut makes you appreciate music as an amplifier of life’s perspectives, and inadvertently justified why movies use soundtracks. “Pressure” is tense and “minerals” are valuable, but, when Kunzite’s rhythms turn these real things into galactic holograms you can touch through sound, the fantasy of this reality is born. For More Information On Kunzite And To Buy Birds Don’t Fly on March 2 Click Here.
