Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Momentum, impetus, whatever the calling, however we describe the energy in which we declare caution against a lost state of emotion, and risk is a truth of endeavour in which your vision, your voice, can command an audience in to pushing you even further than you could ever imagine; that is the energy to which we must utilise if we wish to see the beauty of success in our life time.
Not all of us are blessed with the type of support we require in which to override the feelings of anxious reality, even expressing an opinion to a piece of art can be labelled excessive, we feel naked, unclothed and exposed without an army behind us, the marines of the spectator world in which the House Of Commando has our back in the same way that fills the void with meaning and graft fulfilled for the superb Bird’s View.
To move on from your debut, 2023’s Red Light Habits, and come roaring out of the blocks in excellent style in House Of Commando just 18 months later, shows the kind of fortitude required for commitment to the explosive sound that Bird’s View have impressed upon in such a short space of time.
This wonderfully erudite German band strides with cultural impact, they place themselves in the chaos of others around them and stand proud as if they have navigated a tornado, and then destroyed it with just a single breath of imposition and timing; and as tracks such as the opener Vienna, the superb single of Pin Drop, More To Come, White Barriers, Promise Everything, Circus, and the finale of What It’s Like create an air of supreme comfort in the volatile touch, and it is one that implores upon the listener to seek out and raid the palaces of the dull and the rangers of impedance.
House Of Commando is the perfect follow up to an already superbly demanding debut, as sophomore recordings go this is seismic.
Bird’s View release House Of Commando on 20th September via Drakkar Entertainment.
Ian D. Hall