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After garnering critical praise and national buzz from their last album, I’ll Never Sleep Again, Birds & Batteries is gearing up to release an EP called Up To No Good. Best described as a spooky-funky adventure, the EP is heavily influenced by Bowie’s “Scary Monsters”, John Carpenter films and of course, P-funk. This intriguing new material provides for some of the more climactic moments in the band’s live set. In the past two years, B&B has solidified their lineup with Mike Sempert on keys, guitar; Christopher Walsh on guitar; Jill Heinke on bass and synth; and Brian Michelson on drums and these days, everyone is singing. Through persistent touring with this core group, B&B’s live show has grown stronger and tighter then ever.


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The EP is certainly a new direction for the band, and a step away from the plaintive and lush electro-country of I’ll Never Sleep Again. While funkier and more eery, UTNG still demonstrates B&B’s detailed attention to song writing, arrangement and production.

The songs from Up To No Good were split off from a full length album, Panorama, which the band plans to release in spring 2010. UTNG explores the more electronic side of the B&B palette, allowing the band to save the more organic material for their next output.

Band leader, Mike Sempert says, “There’s a certain freedom that the EP format provides, especially with another full length in the works- a sense that we aren’t defining ourselves in any fixed way, and so we can do whatever we want.”
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