Lake Ruth - Birds of America
Artist: Lake Ruth
Rating: DECENT
Genres: Dream Pop,  Indietronica
Released: 2018
Type: Album
Label: Feral Child Records
Link: Bandcamp
Following their critically acclaimed debut Actual Entity (2016), NYC's Lake Ruth release their second album, Birds of America. Inspired by 1960's sonic experimentation, baroque psychedelia, library obscurities, vintage pop noir, Giallo soundtracks, kraut and jazz, Lake Ruth creates intriguing and unique music rich with multilayered instrumentation, propulsive rhythms and atmospheric vocals. Birds of America's striking front cover features a detail from Edinburgh artist Alan Mills, Jr's 2016 painting "The Birth of Socialism". Lyrically, the album explores themes of oppression and resistance, survival and escape. Its ten songs are populated by a collection of dispossessed characters, struggling to navigate the perilous landscape of a chaotic society at the nexus of destruction and rebirth.
Editions:
2018 Original Release
Feral Child Records | FC06 | Digital/Vinyl
  01. VV (4:18)
02. Julia's Call (3:37)
03. One of Your Own (3:44)
  04. The Cross of Lorraine (4:55)
  05. Radiant City (4:03)
06. Birds of America (3:41)
  07. Under the Waning Moon (4:33)
  08. Walter and the Taxi (3:27)
09. White Wall (4:35)
  10. Westway (3:51)