Radio Birdman - Radios Appear2024 will be the 50th Anniversary of Radio Birdman. To celebrate that milestone, Citadel is pleased to announce the recutting repressing of all their albums. Radios Appear was Radio Birdman's first full length album. Recorded piecemeal over 1976 and early 1977, on weekends and nights when their home base (Trafalgar Studios Sydney) had no paying customers, it was finally released on the Trafalgar label, created specifically to release their records. In

quaint portraits of their retro-futurism

and at times evoke the futurist-pop moves of Japanese composer Haruomi Hosono and the brutalism of Glenn Branca

Following In The Tradition Of Such Brill Building Songwriting Teams As Leiber-Stoller

Released to widespread praise

Jimmy / Blackout segues across a variety of different and often dissonant tones

the seductive slow-burner that convinced the pair to write an album together

Most of the tracks have been recorded in the late 70s/early 80s

From “Coyote Creek” to “Without You

For Hosono

“What a rare and cool challenge it was for me to help Eddie re-emerge after a long hiatus

recorded with an electronic tone generator

surfy guitar