I just have to review this album, since it's one of my top ten albums of all time. (In fact, I liked it so much, I bought about 20 copies one Christmas and evangelically gave it to everybody I knew!) I've been a fan of Great Balancing Act for about a decade, and each of their half-dozen or so albums is creative, surprising, funny, and positive. They have a simple sound that's all about groove. They've got a marriage between funk and sweetness that is made in heaven. They've got lyrics so uplifting and charming you just wanna print them out and tape them up around your house to look at every day. The albums are also all quite different from each other, each one a unity of songs that work together to form their own soundscape, their own adventure-world! The soundscape of 2 Birds is their sweetest and gentlest by far. It's so sweet, it's almost a kids album (I have one or two 7-year-old friends who agree wholeheartedly and can often be seen bopping around the house to it). GBA is singing about raspberries, brown-eyed susans, daisies, dragonflies, and a zillion other friendly forest characters and innocent topics. The trick, though, is that this album is not cheesy or fluffy. There's a power in these songs. They answer life's darkness with thinking so positive it's downright ballsy. Maybe it's just me, but I think this is the kind of album that makes the entire world a better place just by existing! Don't believe me? Give "How Many Daisies" a listen (I think this site lets you sample the songs). I just wish Great Balancing Act would make ALL their albums available on CD Baby so I could extol the world-changing virtues of those ones too!!!
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