1. Falling Back To Earth
2. She's Breaking Up
3. Beautiful Believer
4. Kill The Lights
5. Get In
6. Better Day
7. Underwater Fire
8. Bang The Drum
9. Lies Disappear
10. Slip Inside
11. Genius
12. Forms
13. Lillie May

At first listen to Hot Blood, Bluebird's follow-up to its Y2K album, The Two (Pacifico Recordings), the band's riff-rock may sound similar to Wool, QOTSA or even early Foo Fighters. However, the guitar textures and tasteful "jams" are far more reminiscent of 60's psychedelia, 70's warped skronk, and the MC5's throttled power-riff breakdowns (in fact, former MC5 guitar god, Wayne Kramer makes a guest appearance on the track, "Beautiful Believer"). Bluebird redefine the freejazz-in-rock thing by throwing the noodling out the window and actually having a capacity for working off of one another to build effective riffs and crescendos which bear some similarities to Drive Like Jehu's patchwork guitar strata. Perhaps the band's guiding force is the innate connections between brothers, Jim and Bryan Lee Brown (bass and drums, respectively) who have played together since elementary school days. But, the melodic hooks of vocalist Sam Velde and the thick guitar layers paved by Barry Thomas and recent recruit, Paul Fig (ex-Amen) add further glue to this bond. Composed of five musicians who each contribute a vital energy to every detail of their music, Bluebird's masterful balance of pop sensibility and sonic battery is compulsory listening.

Watch for tour dates throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan in the coming months. For more information, sounds and dates, go to the official Bluebird website, www.bluebirdsounds.com.