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Release Date Friday 17th October 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Talulah’s Tape is the debut offering from magnetic Midwest-jangle collective Good Flying Birds. Across a
patchwork mixtape of stripped-down home recordings that span the independent-guitar spectrum, the band
delivers colorful, intricate pop songs perched between the immediacy of DIY punk and the intimate
sweetness of twee. Breakbeats, memes, and noise glue everything together, making the album feel as
chronically online as it is timeless.
RIYL: The Vaselines/Heavenly/The Pastels/Guided By Voices/Josef K.
Originally released on cassette in January 2025 by Midwest-punk legend Martin Meyers’s Rotten Apple
label, the tape sold more than 300 copies in under a month and quickly became an out-of-print and coveted
item. Meyers called it “certified catnip for popheads.” Now, with a refined track list and a fresh master from
Greg Obis, Talulah’s Tape returns on LP and digital via Carpark and Smoking Room in October 2025.
While production and approach vary, a through-line of sensitive self-contemplation rests on bright, scrappy
guitars and hyperactive melodic bass. Opener “Down on Me” rides a buoyant bass line while jangling
guitars frame reflections on overcoming trauma: “I see you in the mirror every time I cry / I hear your voice
every time I try.” Next, the guitars trade twinkling counter-melodies on “I Care for You,” pairing sugary,
lovestruck lyrics with effervescent strums: “You catch me when I fall / You build me up so tall.”
The rosy grin occasionally twists into a wicked smirk. “Dynamic” warns, “You used to paint the face, but now
you’re just the clown,” while “Glass” asks, “Is it lonely at the top when everyone follows the trend, and you
hold the pen?” Both tracks brim with sparkling guitar interplay. By the closing, nearly five-minute “Last
Straw,” Good Flying Birds stand far beyond conventional indie-pop or 4-track punk, unveiling a roller-
coaster of unpredictable changes, vocal harmonies, and instrumental cross-talk.
Altogether, Talulah’s Tape is a pastel-yellow, candy-coated shell filled with thoughtful juxtapositions and
melodic experiments. Standing on the same ground as idiosyncratic songwriters like Connie Converse and
Daniel Johnston, Good Flying Birds find sweetness in sadness, tear stains on a colorful flower-print couch.
Simultaneously, it’s packed with the scratchy guitars and vibrant rhythms of Scottish guitar groups like The
Pastels, Orange Juice, and Josef K. It’s a tremendous opening statement from a band just getting started.
Tracklisting
Side A 1. Down on me 2. GFB 3. I Care For You 4. Wallace 5. Dynamic 6. Fall Away 7. Hard Ass Beat 8. Everyday is Another 9.
X 10. Eric's Eyes Side B 11. Goldball 12. Glass 13. ...2 14. Pulling Hair 15. I Will Find 16. Last Straw 17. A Love Story (gidget)
18. Art Rock (gidget) 19. Always Me (gidget)
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