Rare Bird is a collection of notices and observations.
Rare Bird is a cool collection of retro folk-rock songs created by Chicago artists Seamus Kreitzer, Connor Criswell, Mason Stahl and Max Berg via Disaster Kid. The songs feel like they belong to the past, but also our present, symbolizing a musical reminder of sorts, to be present. Go be a rare bird.
About Disaster Kid and their new EP Rare Bird
Seamus borrows from songwriters like Jason Molina and contemporary songwriters like MJ Lenderman or Waxahatchee as his key influences, though Slaughter Beach, Dog also remains and inspiration too.
Each song was written with meticulous patience, allowing songwriter Seamus Kreitzer to stitch together prose to completion, like pulling a ball of thread until it’s all laid out. Lyrically, Rare Bird stems from ideas, writings, and journal entries from as early as 2020. Rare Bird’s conceptually inspired by attempting to digest the present moment in an attention-demanding world and pinpointing the small details that sometimes strike us in large ways.
The EP’s voice is not only shaped by the musicians involved but also by the places that cultivated its creation. Old Town School of Folk Music became the host to many writing/practice sessions allowing the EP to take shape.
In April 2024, the band (Seamus Kreitzer, Connor Criswell, and Mason Stahl) set off with longtime collaborator, producer and engineer Andrew Tereick to a cabin owned by a mutual friend’s family in northern Wisconsin where the EP would be recorded. After five days of recording, the band left their reclusive makeshift studio feeling accomplished and grateful to be creating with their closest friends. Over the next few weeks, the EP went through final overdubs and additions made by newest member, Max Berg, and soon after mixed by Andrew Tereick and mastered by Mike Altergott.
