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Bobby Birdman: "Weighty Weight" (Video)

5:34 p.m. · November 6, 2009 · by Bruce Porter

If you guessed Bobby Birdman is a stage name, you’d be right. Bobby Birdman, aka Robert Von Kieswetter, cites an eclectic group of musicians as influences on his MySpace page, whose sounds are allowed to breathe through his music in a refreshing way. In the video for “Weighty Weight,” a scratchy, slow-motion clip of a skateboarder on a beach boardwalk looks more like a figure skater caught in the wrong environment. Birdman’s profile wobbles in time with the song that sounds caught somewhere between acoustics of the Microphones slowed to half-speed and Damon Albarn’s vocals circa The Good, the Bad and the Queen. [Via: Fader]