1. Sweet Tooth Bird

Sweet Tooth Bird
Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose & Sweet Tooth Bird - Single

2012

Label: Mute
Buy:
CD: Official Store, Amazon
LP: Official Store, Official Store, Amazon, Amazon (UK)
Digital: Amazon, iTunes

Credits The Hooves Of Destiny are Dav Shiel, Rory Gibson, Ed Blazey & Findlay MacAskill. Written by Beth Jeans Houghton. Published by Warner Chappell. Produced & mixed by Ben Hillier for 140dB. Engineered by Mark Rankin & Ferg Peterkin. Assisted by Matt Wiggins & Joe Rodgers. Recorded in The Pool. Mixed at Panarific. Mastered by Bunt Stafford-Clark at Pierce Rooms Mastering, Lead Vocal, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Ukulele, Piano, Organ, Timpani, Vibraphone – Beth Jeans Houghton. Trumpet – Ed Blazey. Drums and Percussion – Damon Reece. Violins – Everton Nelson, Sally Herbert. Viola – Bruce White. Cello – Ian Burdge. Additional Snare Drums, Bass, MS20 Synthesiser – Ben Hillier.

Lyrics (from the official CD booklet) I knew a bird with words so sweet That they would god damn rot your teeth A tongue so sharp it cut it’s words Before they even left its beak There are no words to understand The stone cold pistol in my hand I shot I shot I shot it down My sweet tooth bird lies on the ground Oh calm down please calm down Oh calm down please, please calm down Oh calm down please calm down Oh calm down calm down The foreign heights that bless your wings Now weigh you down with iron rings But sweet tooth I’ll be glad to go Where fire cracks the mountain snow

Music video:

Live:
(Rock En Seine)

(Later... with Jools Holland)

 (Lightship Session)

T in the Park Festival (BBC)

Trivia:

“Sweet Tooth Bird is about something that is so good it’s bad. I think there is this strange feeling of guilt that we all get once we reach a stage of happiness. It is human nature to exist with grief and sadness.” (Beth Jeans Houghton for PasteMagazine)
Neesha Champaneria, the girl in the ‘Sweet Tooth Bird’ video, is also the voice of the spoken word section of ‘Atlas’. (bjh)

Reviews:
Guardian
Electric Banana