We are elated to announce that Good Flying Birds has joined the Carpark roster! Today we're co-releasing their new single "Eric's Eyes" with Oakland-based label Smoking Room.
Good Flying Birds is a jangling, noisy guitar-pop group based in the Midwest, USA. It began in December 2023 with a collection of 4-track cassette recordings and stop-motion videos uploaded to YouTube under the name “Talulah God,” along with a chaotic and colorful, GIF-infested website. Over the following months, songs were uploaded fairly frequently, eventually catching the attention of influential punk and DIY label operator Martin Meyer. Sharing both dirty basements and well-lit stages with like-minded punk janglers (Sharp Pins, Answering Machines, Wishy, Pardoner, Horsegirl, Graham Hunt, Golomb, Chronophage, Playland, to name a few), they’ve been key players in stoking a flame for scrappy guitar music that seems to grow by the day. The influence of jangly lo-fi/DIY heavyweights who came before like Guided By Voices (their namesake), Beat Happening, DLIMC, Talulah Gosh (partly their namesake), and The Vaselines, is prevalent, but they carry a unique charm all their own. It’s the sound of looking at a crumbling world with rosy cheeks and wide eyes, a tambourine by your side.
On “Eric’s Eyes,” Good Flying Birds prove their inventive pop sensibility. Listeners immediately get swept up in the jangly, Danelectro guitar as lead singer Kellen Baker ruminates on a bittersweet relationship - “sunshine falling off your glasses / leave it burning on my skin.” It’s so catchy that you’ll find yourself harmonizing and dancing along by the last chorus.
Listen to the new song & watch the music video here.
