Redwing Blackbird

Redwing Blackbird is the focal project of Paul Baker, currently based in Westminster, Colorado, USA. Baker is perhaps best known for his time with nineties goth rockers Second Skin. Redwing Blackbird, on the other hand, distils influences from Baker’s extensive background working across multiple genres: from the political ideology and ethos of punk; the guitar tonality and melodic lead bass of post-punk, proto-goth, shoegaze, noise-rock, drone-rock, and no-wave; the sonic nuances and complexities of prog-rock, post-rock, and indie-psychedelia; the vocal growl of classic goth rock; and the rootsy Americana of neofolk-meets-Southern Gothic outlaw country. Comparisons have been drawn to everyone from Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Big Black, and Joy Division through to Swans and Nick Cave; Dead Kennedys and The Clash; and even points of reference as disparate as Slint or Ween. And yet, despite having clearly defied and confounded convenient genre pigeonholes, there is certainly a coherent, distinctive, and immediately identifiable Redwing Blackbird sound.