Philadelphia’s Birdie Busch, with the help of 137 patrons through PledgeMusic, has made her 4th full length album entitled Birdie Busch and the Greatest Night. Recorded over the summer of 2012 in studios in Philadelphia and Brooklyn, the new album was just released digitally to patrons in October, and is available here as now as well. This recording gathers together what Birdie loves best: playing in a band with other like-minded folks where melody, rhythm, dynamic, and songwriting are all getting their time to shine. While the group that makes up Birdie Busch and the Greatest Night have toured and recorded a lot together in the past year, this was the first project that allowed them all to devote a week to focused recording, arranging and experimenting. The full band recorded live with Nathan Sabatino, the engineer for Dr.Dog’s Be the Void, and then cut vocals and mixed at the Honey Jar with Devin Greenwood in DUMBO. “Everything was happening at once, the feeding off of each other’s energies, the guitar licks calling and responding, the eye contact, the instantaneous reactionary arrangements”. “Best recording experience ever” says Birdie, “we recorded the band live, with all the instruments leaking and the band just peaking”. The new recordings show growth, maturity, and risk taking. The instrumentation is lush, yet angular and muscular, with prog rock textures, psychedelic references, trippy vocal effects and instrumental interludes, all fronted by a woman with a ‘58 Kay. With the propulsive rhythm section in songs like “Part of Apart”, there are transcendent moments when the band achieves acceleration and lift, a transfiguration, and a reaching in, and out, and up. There’s lots going on in these recordings and they only fully reveal more with each listen.