INTERVIEWSStream Bill Baird's Full Shape-Shifting 'Spring Break of the Soul'
The psych-pop wingnut's new double LP in its entirety, a week before its release on Pau Wau
Bill Baird, the Oakland-based oddball who previously fronted Sound Team and Sunset, has been fairly quiet for the last two years, focusing on his graduate work at California's Mills College. Now, the once-prolific Master's candidate is making up for his recent sabbatical with his most robust full-length outing yet, double LP Spring Break of the Soul, out March 5 via Pau Wau Records. Baird teased the 17-track psych opus earlier this month with the album's haunted title track, and the rest of the project takes on similar shapes, morphing from sparkling, bass-blustered soft rock to horn-punched, steel drum vacation fare, to a cello-driven crawler fit for a Tim Burton stop-motion film.
- Bill Baird — Spring Break of The Soul
- Bill Baird — Sailing (written by Christopher Cross)
- Bill Baird — World Gone Deaf
- Bill Baird — Sewage Sirens
- Bill Baird — Bow Down To The Brain
- Bill Baird — Lost At Sea
- Bill Baird — Big Sur Reverie
- Bill Baird — Marooned
- Bill Baird — Black Fritz
- Bill Baird — Lake Eerie
- Bill Baird — Shave
- Bill Baird — Blob
- Bill Baird — Go To Mexico
- Bill Baird — Inflated Head
- Bill Baird — Les Paul Pointillistic
- Bill Baird — Hairy Sally
- Bill Baird — Santa Claus of The South
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