Humbird, Frankie Tillo
Date and Time
Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Location
Neurolux Lounge
111 North 11th Street
Boise, ID 83702
Event Details
It feels good to be right. We crave the satisfaction, the ease. But what about when youre not so sure? When youre unsteady, angry, swayable, and doing your damned best anyway?Theres something refreshingly humane about that uncertainty; about having the guts to try, even if you might be wrong. This is the central tenant of Humbirds third full-length album, Right On, a radical ethos in this soap-box age, and an effort worth turning up the amps for, resulting in the projects most electric, playful, mettled record yet.Siri Undlin (the songwriter behind the moniker) and her collaborators tracked live and to tape over the course of two muggy weeks in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. For a collection of songs unafraid of ambiguity, its music that bares its teeth. Anger and dismay sizzle in response to current events. Heartbreak feels like sandpaper, while wildflowers bob and sway in an ever-expanding universe.Produced by Shane Leonard and featuring regular contributors Pat Keen (bass, synth, percussion) and Pete Quirsfeld (drums and percussion), the majority of the songs showcase the locked-in rock trio, a progression from the contemplative folk musings of Undlins previous releases. Even so, Right On incorporates friendly winks to the more whimsical, soundscape-y improvisations that audiences have come to expect from a Humbird performance electrified, gritty, Midwest Americana with a little magic fairy dust thrown in.Right On, the title track and first song of the album, opens the record with a tone of resigned tenacity. Im not mad, but I should be / since true love proved unlucky / I cast the dye, I stained my hands / on wrongful judgments and half-baked plans. As the song moves through time and space, being wrong feels less and less like a failure, and instead transforms into guiding wisdom. The warm tremolo of the guitar maps along the grooves of the rhythm section, creating an atmosphere of inviting imperfection, a clever catalyst for the chorus simple melody to launch and land right in the tender part of your sternum.Other notable tracks include Child Of Violence, complete with psych-rock phaser pedals, which explores the legacy and impact of white supremacy in middle America; Cornfields and Roadkill focuses in on land stolen for profit, and old-growth forests traded for mono-crops in a sonic landscape reminiscent of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Song For The Seeds is a slow-burning synth number, imploring the listener to tear up their lawn. It wields a refrain that will germinate in your mind a proper earworm.Through observation and deft questioning, the lyrics land less like a political agenda and more like a hard conversation with a friend. All the while, you can hear the summertime pace where the recording took place, and the steady confidence of songs that have already traveled many miles on the road.
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