Boy Without God
Boy Without God is the solo project of 23-year-old Boston native Gabriel Birnbaum, who was part of the violent power-electronics of Catholic Skin, the saxophone fronted spazz-rock of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, blog-buzz darlings Drug Rug, Virgin Records signings Eli Reed and campfire singalong folk-pop group The Tiny Tornadoes. Since 2006, Birnbaum has shifted his focus to his solo-songwriting under the name Boy Without God, releasing six home-recorded EPs and two full-lengths. His latest album is Your Body Is Your Soul, applying his everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to songs about the important things in life: sex, love, death. We have his song Holy Holy Little Fist [listen below] available for free download from our Music Download section [psst, it's in the third column of the site]
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Boy Without God’s Secret Playlist
Gabriel Birnbaum, aka Boy Without God, is a songwriter in the vein of Leonard Cohen, mingling straightforward melodic songs with the long-form composition style he picked up writing fifteen-minute free jazz epics during high school. Your Body is Your Soul, his first studio full length, was released this summer. We asked him about the music that will inspire his next recording, and he started with the Cuddle Magic song, Expectations [listen below]: ‘So well written and eternal sounding that when I first heard it, I thought it was a cover because I was positive I’d heard it before. It also has all the amazing little orchestral touches that make every Cuddle Magic song so great: that weird pizzicato part after the first chorus, the drum beat inverting over the second verse, the way the vocals pull back really hard on the time, the shaker entering for the whistling part’. [Read the rest of Boy Without God's Secret Playlist]
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Gabriel Birnbaum, recording under the alter-ego Boy Without God, is a songwriter in the vein of Leonard Cohen, mingling straight-forward melodic songs with the experimentalism and long-form composition style he picked up writing fifteen-minute free jazz epics during high school. Your Body is Your Soul, his first studio full length, was released this summer. This video for his single, If You, was directed by Guillermo Alberto. [Read a Secret Playlist by Boy Without God]
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