Guests - Common Domestic Bird - VINYL LP

Guests is the home recording project of Jessica Higgins and Matthew Walkerdine. Vaguely named as such to avoid any problems with the poster if they pull out of a gig but also to capture a sense of reverse hospitality. That is, arriving at your door with a bottle of good wine (can't turn up empty handed) or a fist full of savoury or sweet snacks (time of day dependant); oversharing at the afters (and then passing out on your couch); reading to your toddler while you make their lunch or put everything back where it was meant to go (only to get torn apart again). So, something about what happens when private worlds meet each other, making or having been made a space for. But at times, it's a different kind of intimacy, a temporal or material one, like the feeling of crisp fresh sheets, and abundant and soft, body-part appropriate towels in a hotel in a city you've been to before and love to go back to. Their debut record, InchI wish I was specialInch, was variously described as Incha collage of concrète experiments and outerzone pop gestures, music that sounds as if it's been written from the depths of a dreamInch; Inchmusic for people who love music but also hate it tooInch; Inchsomething like chasing ghosts or befriending a wild animalInch; Inchpulling apart nervous sensations with haphazard ease and requisite humourInch; and Incha melody of refusal, of being all-in (...) finding the exact right WRONG sound to express the discontentInch. Common Domestic Bird continues in this vein, layering synthesiser, keyboards and samples over rudimentary drum rhythms and field recordings, which are in turn sung or spoken with to create nine new songs.