Clem Snide - Hungry Bird reviews
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| Pastemagazine |
 Eef Barzelay has dusted off the Clem Snide moniker for the first time since 2005’s End of Love, an infinitely listenable emo-tinged power-pop record with hints of twang betraying the group’s alt-country roots. Barzelay had put Clem Snide on hiatus while he cut two solo albums, one in 2006 and one in 2008. During this period, a slow evolution began taking place, as he more fully embraced his sad-eyed Red House Painters side, making increasingly hushed, autumnal (yet still melodic) music. Rather than picking up where End of Love left off, Hungry Bird sounds like an extension of previous solo outing Lose Big. Barzelay’s soft, depressed poetry is brushed across the canvas of his wispy songs as if he could float into the ether at any moment, becoming a ghost singing from the wizenened remove of the afterlife. And yet he remains earthbound, believably tethered to his inability to understand this life’s mysteries....full text |
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| Avclub |
| Eef Barzelay decided to ditch the Clem Snide moniker last year, after more than 15 years of rotating lineups. But he left some unfinished business, namely Hungry Bird, an ambitious album begun in 2006, but eventually scrapped in favor of solo material—and left for dead when Barzelay announced Clem Snide’s end. But a change of heart has resurrected both the pretty, strange disc and the band itself. Hungry Bird doesn’t diverge massively from what fans will expect: It’s sonically a little plusher than Barzelay’s solo discs, especially the tinkling, gorgeous “Born A Man” and “Pray,” a desperate mini-epic that practically begs for a sing-along. (“Pray for the non-believer,” emotes the beautifully cynical Barzelay.) Only the spoken-word guest slot from Pulitzer-winning poet Franz Wright (on “Encounter At 3am”) seems out of place, and only at first: Fully digested, Hungry Bird succeeds as a grand epitaph and a birth announcement....full text |
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| Prefixmag |
Clem Snide, an almost twenty-year old project that can claim its roots in both New York and Nashville, was a pioneer in exploring the relationship between indie rock and country. The group has gone through a number of personnel shifts over the years, with the sole exception of songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Eef Barzelay. After the 2005 release, End of Love, Barzelay announced that the band was breaking up.
Yet it appears that Clem Snide has reformed, and the band’s upcoming album, Hungry Bird, initially completed in 2006, is finally ready for release. According to the band’s label, 429 Records, Hungry Bird was written and produced right before a period of personal and professional turmoil befell its members, and the tone of the majority of its tracks reflect the kind of humble, and even serene mood often prevalent right before a predicted storm or battle is supposed to occur.
The music of opener “Me No” switches between sounding mildly sinister and quietly resigned. Barzelay’s pleading to “untie me” by the end of the track conveys a very real desperation, and one may question whether he was aching to be “untied” from the Clem Snide project itself. This is one of the stronger songs on the album, and the melody is haunting....full text |
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