press

I put these press clips up here not because I believe what these people say, and I don't expect you to believe this stuff either.   But if I said a good review or a nice word didn't make me feel good, that would be a lie.   The only problem with paying attention to reviews at all... bad reviews become much harder to shrug off.   

"unrepentantly strange and darkly funny in a way that reminded me of Beck if Mellow Gold tanked and he never met the Dust Brothers, deciding instead to keep going on the Stereopathetic Soulmanure path"  - PItchfork

"magnetically awkward" - Village Voice

"madman in chief" - NME

"the thoughtful Mr. Baird" - NY Times

“Bill Baird may be one of the more astounding songwriters tangling up tape in America right now. ” – RCRDLBL

"Austin's most prolific songwriter... It only takes a few minutes of listening to notice that the local songwriter is fully devoted to his craft, a song factory embodied who pays no mind to the business of music, rather focusing on honoring the art of music as a life form and qualifier for existence. He's the type of artist who reminds you of Jeff Buckley and what he once said to music critic Dimitri Erlich in Erlich's Inside the Music: Conversations with Contemporary Musicians about Spirituality, Creativity and Consciousness: "I want to live my life playing music, so that we can be immersed in it. In order to learn how deep it goes, you have to be in it." -- Austin Music Weekly

""Blonde" Bill Baird's records are the kind every musician daydreams about making: totally spontaneous, just you in a room with a 4-track, guitars and shit, lotsa bad whisky and good weed. And his just might be good for your health...that openness in his music seems so natural, you never feel like you're insulting your intelligence with passive-aggressive indie-folk drivel. Music this free-and-easy could add years to your life."  -- Pittsburgh City Paper

"...modern psychedelia at its finest...while Baird’s inventive arrangements and quick-witted lyrics initially prove to be the main draw, it’s the dense textures and sonic subtleties of his production that keep bringing you back to this ambitious piece of work" -- Exclaim!

"he folk/psych/pop brainchild of Austin's Bill Baird, Sunset is meditative, dramatic, electronic, and evocative of a pre-"Guero" Beck. As his nom de plume suggests, the general mood of "The Glowing City" finds its footing somewhere near Baroque melancholia, but the dramatically epic nature of the project and its variable prowess of instrumentation will leave you feeling undoubtedly triumphant. Recommended!" -- Other Music 

This was the most ridiculous interview ever, I think:

Bright Blue Dream:

Tiny Mix Tapes

AMG

NPR

NPR 2 - "The sounds of shoegazer folk"

GorillavsBear1

Daytrotter 1

Daytrotter 2

Daytrotter 3

awkward Gchat interview

hour long radio program w/ music, interview

brief WTBU interview

Bill Baird, "Silence!"

I Guess I'm Floating