The Bird and The Bee Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future

• Fanfare
• My Love
• Diamond Dave
• What's in the middle
• Ray Gun
• Love Letter To Japan
• Meteor
• Baby
• Phil
• Polite Dance Song
• You're A Cad
• Witch
• Birthday
• Lifespan of A Fly

The Bird and the Bee are characteristically shy about revealing details about their new album, but if the duo's eponymous debut (2007) and subsequent handful of EPs are any indication, Ray Guns are Not Just the Future will feature another set of immaculately-produced, Francophilic retro-chamber pop. With twelve new songs to work with, producer Greg Kurstin and lead chanteuse Inara George have plenty of room to stretch out in the bachelor pad.Also expect a couple familiar favorites: "Polite Dance Song" shows up from the Please Clap Your Hands EP (2007), and "Birthday" is reprised from the digital-onlyOne Too Many Hearts EP (2008).

Abstract by Etan Rosenbloom