A Fine Frenzy’s Daring Sophomore Album, ‘Bomb In A Birdcage,’ Turns Up The Volume
A FINE FRENZY—led by Alison Sudol—will release Bomb in a Birdcage, the follow-up to 2007’s critically acclaimed One Cell in the Sea, on September 8, 2009. While the debut established Sudol as one of the most talented young singers and songwriters around, the new album reveals another side of A Fine Frenzy.
“I think some people may be surprised,” says 24-year-old Sudol. “They think that I’m all fragile and ethereal, but I have a wild side, too. I’m a quiet person with a loud streak, and this record is a testament to that.”
One Cell reached Number One on Billboard’s “Heatseeker” charts, and A Fine Frenzy received rave reviews from media around the world. Songs from the album were licensed to numerous television shows and Sudol appeared on The Tonight Show, The CBS Early Show and The Late Show with David Letterman. The young redheaded singer made her acting debut on CSI:NY, turned up in fashion spreads and received a lot of attention for her literary interests, including a band name taken from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
“Blow Away,” the breezy, propulsive first single from Bomb in a Birdcage, will go to Canadian Hot AC radio on July 13. The track illustrates that the new album retains the tuneful charm and whimsical language of the debut, while adding new colors and textures. Lengthy tours alongside the likes of Rufus Wainwright and Brandi Carlile contributed to Sudol’s attraction to different sounds. “On tour,” she says, “I discovered that I love rocking out and having a good time. I started listening to as much music as I could. I didn’t want to limit myself. I wanted to stretch and grow and push myself. I also wanted to have fun.”
Born in Seattle and raised in Los Angeles, Sudol retains a close relationship to the outdoors and to the spirit of fantasy she found in writers like Lewis Carroll and C.S. Lewis. But she’s far from being some kind of romantic Luddite. In fact, she was active on Twitter (@AFineFrenzy) long before it became a cultural phenomenon—to the point that she now has over half a million followers, making her one of the top ten musicians on the service, alongside folks like Britney Spears and John Mayer.
The cliché is that an artist puts her whole life into her debut, and then has to crank out a follow-up while touring and feeling commercial pressure for the first time. But on Bomb in a Birdcage, Alison Sudol has challenged herself, and reached heights that even she couldn’t imagine. “I felt like being daring,” she says. “I wasn’t interested in doing more of the same, that doesn’t inspire me. And now, I can’t wait to get on the road with this stuff! It’s going to be quite an undertaking, but I’m up for it.”
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