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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Maple
Salesrank: 210892
Released: April 2, 2007 |
| Our Price: $10.03 |
| Used Price: $22.33 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Strange Birds Track Listing:
1. The Music
2. Brilliant
3. Ugly Is Beautiful
4. So Far Down
5. Spotlight On
6. Science
7. White Flag
8. Happy Endings
9. Life of Bees
10. Blue
11. Some People Say
Strange Birds Reviews:
At the top of his game 
2008-01-04 - This is David Usher doing what he does best - writing pure poetry and setting it to music so listenable you'll be hard-pressed to take this CD off repeat. Usher takes his place easily amoung the best singer/songwriters of his day, he is a true bard. The combination of complex lyrics and simple melodies are his trademark, and he's at the top of his game with Strange Birds. I listened to it nonstop during the last 2 months of my pregnancy with my son who was born in June - to this day nothing calms him down like David Usher's voice.
David Usher - Strange Birds
2007-06-07 - Can't wait for the next album, they just keep getting better!
Brilliant
2007-06-03 - Dave never fails to amazes me w/ his haunting lyrics of love, faith, drugs, life it just makes you think.
It seems w/ each CD he just outdoes himself. I can't understand why Dave hasn't broke through in the US. I'm just glad he's producing more CDs. Some great tracks are 'Brilliant', 'Ugly Is Beautiful', 'White Flag'.
Reminds a bit from his Morning Orbit and Hallucinations CDs.
Awesome!
2007-05-13 - The CD I bought was in perfect condition, just like it said it would be. I would buy from this person again 100%. Awesome!!!!
Like These Roses
2007-05-06 - David Usher's new solo CD, the fifth in my collection, continues his excellent musical output. "The Music" is a driving rock tune with a wistful reflective quality in the melody. Usher's amazingly original lyrical thrust continues, "I go out every night & hide myself among the lights, bathe in all the pretty things the city brings; The bodies glisten & they shine; Like the stars, we're born to die & like these roses, we all will fade." "Spotlight On" is another delightful track with the acoustic guitars chiming enchantingly, "Drift away, dawn is breaking; All the people live for coffee, read about the day's disasters; Hustlers & the queens are singing." Usher builds the tension in the track until it bursts into a gorgeous chorus, "Still we are invincible." This track ranks with the best of Usher's work. "Life of Bees" is another amazing track with Usher's trademark melodic build, "The wings they uncurl like the strangest of birds; We're all breaking down again." After his output with Moist and on his fifth CD, his melodic sense begins to feel comfortably recognizable. His work is so amazingly complex and unique that he is an artist whose releases I continue to seek. He is, unfortunately, a well kept secret Stateside. Bravo!
