Guests: Common Domestic Bird LP

Guests is the home recording project of Jessica Higgins and Matthew Walkerdine. Their debut record, "I wish I was special", was variously described as "a collage of concrète experiments and outerzone pop gestures, music that sounds as if it's been written from the depths of a dream". "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. The songs on "Common Domestic Bird" hint at some "about"-ness through a series of discrete vignettes which sound a bit like architecture or end of year lists, gossip or over-thinking subjectivity, like disappearances and impressions, the support structure of the spine, letters and signs offs, things you could really do without and where they should go, hoping you'll see something that isn’t there, pretences and performance.