{"product_id":"wilder-maker-the-streets-like-beds-still-warm","title":"Wilder Maker - The Streets Like Beds Still Warm","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeeply felt and finely focused, undeniably listenable but difficult to pin down, 'The Streets Like Beds Still Warm' is beautifully strange –– and it feels like just the kind of thing likely to receive the praise it deserves a decade down the road.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile there are no visual cues, per se, on 'The Streets Like Beds Still Warm', the record owes a great debut to cinematography. Impressionistic swirls of effected guitar, drums, and saxophone support Birnbaum’s husky and worldweary baritone croon which sometimes echoes Bill Fay. But at times, in all its dim-lit barroom storytelling, one may think of Tom Waits. It’s a comparison that threatens both to mislead and sell short, but it’s difficult not to see things while listening to 'The Streets Like Beds Still Warm' –– perhaps a slowly swinging Tiffany lamp just above the narrator’s head as he’s a little more than half-drunk, scrawling a brilliantly poetic, antiheroic tale on a bar napkin. Be assured, though, this is not 'The Heart of Saturday Night' and it’s not 'In the Wee Small Hours'. In fact, 'The Streets Like Beds Still Warm'’s musical precedents come from distinctly different corners of the musical universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe band draws direct influence from the work of alt-jazz contemporaries Anna Butterss and Jeff Parker as well as ambient progenitor Brian Eno. 'The Streets Like Beds Still Warm' is, holistically, a statement of nocturnal and hypnotic storytelling –– a matter of both style and substance. Birnbaum’s investment in the narrative, which ultimately deals in humanity, is reflected by the dreamlike way the tunes themselves unfold. It could not work any other way\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRIYL: Robert Wyatt’s Rock Bottom, Jim O’Rourke, Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, Oren Ambarchi, Bitchin Bajas, Eiko Ishibashi, Arthur Russell, Tortoise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Western Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50240272531734,"sku":"RMX-49833","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/6b503917dc68a2a21e816c71f8217beb.png?v=1752594035","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/wilder-maker-the-streets-like-beds-still-warm","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}