{"id":23009,"date":"2016-08-06T18:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=23009"},"modified":"2017-07-02T08:03:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T12:03:35","slug":"virgin-birds-announce-sophomore-album-secrets-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=23009","title":{"rendered":"Virgin of the Birds announce sophomore album &#8216;Secrets Kids&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23390\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0b7a8fe3-a0b1-4ae3-81b8-cb38df657fd8.jpg?resize=800%2C534\" alt=\"Virgin of the Birds\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0b7a8fe3-a0b1-4ae3-81b8-cb38df657fd8.jpg?w=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0b7a8fe3-a0b1-4ae3-81b8-cb38df657fd8.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/0b7a8fe3-a0b1-4ae3-81b8-cb38df657fd8.jpg?resize=768%2C513 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>Seattle trio,\u00a0Virgin of the Birds, has announced their sophomore album, &#8216;Secret Kids,&#8217; will arrive\u00a0October 14\u00a0via Abandoned Love Records\u00a0in North America, and\u00a0Song, By Toad\u00a0in the UK\/Europe. You can take a listen to\u00a0the first single lifted from the album, <em>Spooky, Stony, Barely Over Thirty<\/em>,\u00a0via\u00a0Soundcloud\u00a0below.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F276288974&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=787878\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Named after a poor English translation of a Salvador Dali painting, Virgin of the Birds treads a line between intimate, lo-fi pop and the occasional grandeur of early art rock.<\/p>\n<p>Led by songwriter\u00a0Jon Rooney, Virgin of the Birds started as a bedroom recording project in the mid-00s, in San Francisco, surfacing as a full band in Austin, before settling in Seattle.\u00a0After self-releasing a series of homespun EPs via his own Abandoned Love Records, Rooney caught the ear of the Scottish blog\/label Song, By Toad who released Virgin of the Bird&#8217;s debut full-length, &#8216;Winter Seeds,&#8217; in 2014.\u00a0 Rooney cites the Velvet Underground&#8217;s third record, the Verlaines and Lilys as references, and has been compared to Felt, Bill Callahan and David Berman, with his verbose verbiage and mining of obscure pop culture references throughout his songs, and the album&#8217;s title, which gives a nod to late &#8217;70s Philadelphia folk-rock saviors Kenn Kweder and his Secret Kidds.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-23010\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0a09db22-e361-4d64-8552-148abc146ee8.jpg?resize=367%2C367\" alt=\"Secret Kids cover\" width=\"367\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0a09db22-e361-4d64-8552-148abc146ee8.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0a09db22-e361-4d64-8552-148abc146ee8.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0a09db22-e361-4d64-8552-148abc146ee8.jpg?resize=768%2C768 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0a09db22-e361-4d64-8552-148abc146ee8.jpg?resize=144%2C144 144w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0a09db22-e361-4d64-8552-148abc146ee8.jpg?resize=120%2C120 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0a09db22-e361-4d64-8552-148abc146ee8.jpg?w=800 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Secret Kids&#8217;\u00a0track listing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01. Cardinal Points<br \/>\n02. Spooky, Stony Barely Over Thirty<br \/>\n03. I Am A Bad Dreamer<br \/>\n04. Spanish Accusations<br \/>\n05. Minmae Shall Be Revealed<br \/>\n06. Secret Kids<br \/>\n07. The Queen Of Sweden<br \/>\n08. Victor Bockris<br \/>\n09. Summer Palace<br \/>\n10. Mothering Sunday<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Virgin of the Birds performed through the years in San Francisco, Austin, the Pacific Northwest and Scotland Rooney with drummer\/producer\u00a0Colin J Nelson\u00a0and bassist\u00a0Ken Nottingham completed their first ever tour of the West Coast this past spring, and with the release of &#8216;Secret Kids&#8217;\u00a0will take to the road across the USA this Fall, before heading back to the UK in December &#8211; dates to be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>For more\u00a0information\u00a0on Virgin of the Birds, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001K143PsvlyKprzm2p6JD1_jOnxhQ1-KqArH94Mo2kZyGfYD7KVvacQfFiy0ssDSORJJgtpc7wnWSL3ZqrMyni5zdo7tkvagg7RNehzx3QCtgihWDxfvoRqVyXy6ksGwfUfidv-sBAYmy8oDcW-QOZr1jj5jcPUiXiy8X08qVX_hsCwXO6lU43MA==&amp;c=e6u7854xVIFY7ihQ4sXmywyVzh3lTwFAY7c6ik04_sIKHH5CeKJlEw==&amp;ch=bZVnPfZYnfQOFGTgCmnAyNIf3xI7EA8UlQbQOLtDBLwU_Eu_cqBaPA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" shape=\"rect\">virginofthebirds.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Seattle trio,\u00a0Virgin of the Birds, has announced their sophomore album, &#8216;Secret Kids,&#8217; will arrive\u00a0October 14\u00a0via Abandoned Love Records\u00a0in North America, and\u00a0Song, By Toad\u00a0in the UK\/Europe. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=23009\" title=\"Virgin of the Birds announce sophomore album &#8216;Secrets Kids&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,28,30,1907],"tags":[64,5328,5325,5326,5327,5324],"class_list":["post-23009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","category-news","tag-abandoned-love-records","tag-barely-over-thirty","tag-secret-kids","tag-spooky","tag-stony","tag-virgin-of-the-birds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/0d9677ae-a887-4229-a8a7-d338f9c977e8.jpg?fit=800%2C534","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-5Z7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23389,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=23389","url_meta":{"origin":23009,"position":0},"title":"Virgin of the Birds release &#8216;Spooky, Stony, Barely Over Thirty&#8217; video","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"September 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Seattle trio\u00a0Virgin of the Birds\u00a0have premiered a video for Spooky, Stony, Barely Over Thirty, the first single from their upcoming sophomore album, 'Secret Kids'. 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