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Strange bird
Singer David Usher flies the Canadian coop to produce his latest solo effort.
By Karen Bliss
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"Lyrically, I think there's a theme to the record," says David Usher of his fifth and newest solo album, Strange Birds, due out March 20. "The theme definitely has to do with finding your place within your own world, which is finding your place in your neighbourhood, which is I guess what I'm doing down here."
Usher now lives in New York City, specifically the East Village, where he has found tons of lyrical inspiration for such songs as the vibrant first single "The Music" and pitter-pattery "Spotlight On."
"But that relates to bigger things as well," he says of the theme. "It's trying to maintain your voice when there's a million more radical, more obnoxious voices trying to speak over you."
The British-born, Canadian-raised singer-songwriter co-produced Strange Birds with his friend, Byron Wong in Toronto and cut all 11 songs with his band - Chris Taylor-Munro (drums), Kevin Young (keyboards), Julie Galios (vocals, bass), and Jonathan Gallivan (guitar) - which he says was instrumental in plotting the sound.
"This record is different because I had the band coming down [to New York] every month to play the songs, rehearse, write and everything like that," says Usher. "The craziest thing is that I'm in an apartment in New York and we can actually rehearse in the apartment," he says laughing. "I don't know what it is about my building, but the (people) have all been in the East Village for a long time and they're pretty chilled."
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