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**Ltd Sky Blue Vinyl
There was a bird Matthew Ehler had seen in his backyard before, but hed never really stopped to look at it.
A red-headed woodpecker, a strange-looking bird. After years of more self-destructive escapes from everyones respective demons and traumas, Ehler started to embrace the stillness of birdwatching. It was something to occupy my mind, he explains. His new hobby wouldnt just lend Cliffdivers sophomore album its title, but signal a spiritual overhaul rippling through the band.
The origins of Cliffdiver go all the way back to 2017. By 2021, the line-up had settled into Ehler on guitar, Joey Duffy and Briana Wright on vocals, Gilbert Erickson on guitar, Tyler Rogers on bass, Eliot Cooper on drums, and Dony Nickels on sax. All of them veterans of Tulsas vibrant and interconnected music scene, they kicked up steam fast over a host of EPs, singles, and their debut album, Exercise Your Demons , they went from DIY shows to selling out Tulsas famed Cains Ballroom.
Still, Birdwatching feels like the work of a whole different band: an album specifically grappling with abandoning cyclical behaviors and addictions that no longer serve you. Its pop-punk maturing into grown-ass adult travails. Birdwatching is a very real take on life: Things get better, but they also get worse again, and better again, and worse again, and nobody will ever have it all figured out. In each snapshot, Cliffdiver offers a companion for those ups and downs.
Produced by Brett Romnes (Hot Mulligan, Mom Jeans, Dogleg)
Cliffdiver is a set of splayed ribs, a whole lot of heart, and someone you can turn to when the lights refuse to turn on NPR Music
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