Early Birds of a feather flock together. When Otis Shanty say they’re more in sync than ever, you have to believe them — the Somerville bandmates double as roommates, an often fatal combination for groups with big personalities. Yet after many sessions spent jamming in their sunroom, Otis Shanty have found heightened harmony in their close quarters, knitting a shoegaze-adjacent saunter titled Early Birds.
The band dropped the four-track EP today (October 6), revealing a mellowed-out soundtrack for evenings spent lounging on the sofa among friends. Even during its most melancholy moments, Early Birds soars the highest when it offers a nestlike ambiance, compounding the innate comfort of community and home.
“Early Birds is our struggle to find balance in our chemistry, grow closer to one another, and feel understood by each other as much as by our listeners,” vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Sayde Bobbette tells Vanyaland. “The sunroom of our house was the physical space that allowed us to build and explore that story. Playing in Otis Shanty is and will always be very real and organic; we can’t function as a machine that runs on some brand or abstract idea. The show doesn’t always go on unless there is genuine enthusiasm from each member, each moving in stride with one another, no matter how messy or complex each of our human lives are.”
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