It has been several years (8 to be exact) since the last Birdation release during which time chief ‘bird-racer’ and guitar/sound alchemist Hope Robertson has recorded a couple of Death And The Maiden albums and the exceptional been-and-gone eponymous Bad Sav album. So this new song “Haggard” is a momentous occasion:

“Haggard” is a gloriously upbeat (in a downbeat way) woozy lo-fi guitar-and-stuff instrumental woven through with dubby echoes of itself and semi-glitchy percussion and sound manipulation. It puts my head in the same space as recent favourites like the album of evocative guitar instrumentals “For The Morning” by Australian guitarist Sarah Hardiman under the alias LOU.

I could listen to a whole album of these exploratory experimental guitar tunes should Birdation ever by inclined to compose/ compile/ collate such a thing, hopefully not with an 8 year wait between each track.

[Update: Wish granted. Not even an 8 day wait for “a real handful” of Birdation tunes. Chur.]