If the latest offering from Bird Streets (the alter ego of John Brodeur) sounds a little paranoid and isolating, you can chalk that up to the global pandemic. Four years in the making, much of The Escape Artist, the third effort from Bird Streets, was written and recorded during the lost COVID years, where uncertainty was a running theme in everyone’s lives.
As the restrictions finally started to loosen in 2021, Brodeur met up with his longtime collaborator and producer, Jason Falkner (Jellyfish), to start recording what he had. The die is cast from the first moment of the opening song, “Bedhead,” where Brodeur sings “Another gray December morning fell upon my head” over a lonely acoustic guitar, before an even more maudlin violin…

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